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scenes from a winter morning walk
Seattle, 2023
I went on a walk early this morning after a couple of cups of coffee and a bowl of cold cereal and put the shower off until after I returned. I took a camera with a 28mm fixed wide angle lens and shot in black & white. There’s something about foggy winter days in the depth of northern winters which demands black & white.
This morning’s walk was only about 2-3 miles. Probably closer to two. The streets at 8 AM were mostly empty, but I stayed off most of the busy arterials. The ones I crossed were dead too. It wasn’t as foggy this morning as it was yesterday afternoon. That sort of surprised me. Usually, it’s foggy in the morning and if it burns off, the fog dissipates by 2:00 PM or so. But the switch was reversed this morning, and as I arrived back home about 10 AM, fog was descending in my neighborhood.
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It’s been foggy the past few days in Seattle. Often that means gloom. But it almost always means no rain. It was foggy yesterday as well. The panoramic camera on top of the Space Needle is one of the world’s best web cameras, and the view from there at 4:10 PM and 5:20 PM were fantastic for December 20, especially the latter time. I’ll post a link to the camera if you’re interested, but you’ll have to navigate to the date and specific times yourself. I don’t know how to link to time-specific images. It’s easy to navigate their site: the Date vertical slide selector is on the righthand side of their camera homepage; the Time dial is along the bottom border.
https://www.spaceneedle.com/webcam/
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