my goodness today was gorgeous

[solarbird]

The first day of the year certainly was gorgeous, wasn’t it? At least it was in this part of Cascadia. The Snohomish River valley late in the day in particular, around sunset, turned into this ocean of ground clouds with islands made of hill and the Cascade mountains standing out in particularly brilliant sharp relief from the setting sun – people were stopping on I-5 to pull over and take pictures standing on the guard rails. I am not even making that up.

I was not one of these people, but I thought about it.

Driving across the Hewitt Avenue Trestle took you right into the clouds, too, so the world just disappeared entirely from around you. Given that it was part of a shrine visit, it seemed particularly fitting. And fantastically gorgeous.

And tonight the evening moonrise? Brilliant and also wreathed in distant mist. Fantastic.

There are far worse ways to start a new year.

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