The End of a Rainbow

This fantastic rainbow greeted me as I drove down to the bottom of my street.  I scrambled for my camera and was able to capture one shot before it began to disappear.

Crisp

It's hard to complain about a little more snow when morning looks like this.

Happiness is...

a cherry, caressed by sun and kissed by dew.

Skywatch Friday: Rays of Light

The setting sun shines its light on the beach at South Whidbey Island State Park.

Sun, oh sun, it is so nice to see you again!

Cathedral Rock

Last weekend I went backpacking in the Alpine Lakes wilderness area. Although it's not Bellingham, Cathedral Rock is a Washington State icon, and one I felt worthy of a spot in the Bellingham Daily Photo! It was cold and overcast most of the time, but the sun came out just long enough to kiss this flower with light before disappearing again.

Red Sky at Night

It's rather Armageddon-like, isn't it? Rumor has it that the nearby wildfires in British Columbia are responsible for the haze that's settled over our fine city and caused our sun to turn blood-red in the evening. If we're lucky, the recent solar storms will also cause the northern lights to be visible farther south than usual. Interesting week for sun-watchers!

Also, if you enlarge the picture you can see a sunspot. I thought at first it was a faraway seagull, but when I went back and looked at all the other pictures, it's in the same place in all of them. Neat!

Sunlit Quilt

Another one from the Sunnyland Stomp: Sun shone through this already sun-adorned quilt at the Front Porch Quilt Gallery on Franklin Street.

Skywatch Friday: Solstice Sunset

After a grey, cloudy morning, the sun decided to share her light with us the rest of the day on Monday, the summer solstice. I snapped this photo just as she was sinking beyond the trees at 9:14 PM. Since then, she's been getting up a little later in the morning and going to bed a little earlier... just like I have.

Happy Skywatch Friday!

Happy Summer Solstice...

...Especially to those of you who actually get to see the sun today. Here in the Pacific Northwest, it may be the longest day of the year (sunrise at 5:06 AM, sunset at 9:17 PM) but the hours of daylight will still be short if we're measuring by wattage. It looks like the sun is getting plenty of adoration from other parts of the world today, so we'll let her hide behind her blanket of grey clouds in our corner of the globe, and give her a little break from all the chantings and ululations.

Framed by a Fork

Sun shines through the trees on the Interurban trail

Shooting into the Sun

They tell you
"never shoot into the sun"
A Very Important Rule of Thumb
They don't come from
Washington.
I haven't seen the sun
in a long, wintry month
And I'm shooting into it.