Cape Cod reflections

  

I was at a family wedding on Cape Cod recently (Congratulations, Katie & Aiden!), so here are a few quick shots from Massachusetts.

Above, Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa).

Next, sandbars and sky: 

 

 

And a sunrise, too:

 

 

 

Over the hills

  

 Sunrise over Bodega Harbor, 12 March 2026 

Eastern sky

  

Sunrise from Cotati on 4 November 2025 

(You can click on the image for a larger version.) 

Rising and setting

  

We've been working lots of very early morning low tides recently, so here's a sunrise/moonset photo from last week.

Winter morning

  

 Sunrise, 1 January 2025

Holiday sunrise

  

 

Sunrise, 25 December 2024

 

Happy holidays, everyone!

Light on the light

 
 

A couple of photos of sunrise over Scituate Harbor, 9 December 2024

 

 

And here's one more, with the light on the light:

 

Moon at sunrise

  

A beautiful sunrise yesterday morning (26 October 2024) with pink highlights in the clouds surrounding the moon.

Glowing in the east

 

 

Sunrise from Cotati on 8 January 2024

 

Light from the east

  

Colors at sunrise, photographed from Cotati on 21 November 2023.

Morning glow

  

Sunrise from Cotati on 31 October 2023.

From Del Norte

  

A couple of sunrise views from Crescent City last week...

 

 

Mesa Reyes?

 

 

Above, sunrise from Cotati on 18 October 2022...

 

...and below, a mirage of Point Reyes as seen from Bodega Head near sunset.  (Eric came up with the name "Mesa Reyes" because of the flat-topped and steep-sided appearance.)

 

 

 

There were all sorts of signs of warmer air temperatures today, including a bat swooping around our yard when we got home from work.  In Bodega Bay it looks like air temperatures reached ~65-68°F (~18-20°C) today.

 

P.S.  For an older series of mirage images, see "Can you believe your eyes?" from 7 April 2016.

 

Before the rain

  

Early morning light on 20 April 2022

Dawn of a new year

 

This one goes out to my mom.  She always takes a sunrise photo on New Year's Day, and this year I took one, too.  Although I'm a bit late in sharing it, this is the sunrise from Cotati on 1 January 2020.  

Smoky sunrise

 

Smoky sunrise from Cotati on 10 October 2017

 

Subtle

 

Sometimes subtle is nice.

High clouds at sunrise, 3 August 2017

Sunrise clouds

I've always enjoyed getting up at sunrise — it feels like a very special time of day, when the world is just waking up.  This morning I stepped outside to a beautiful sky — soft pink lighting up the undersides of the clouds on the eastern horizon.  Somehow it seemed like an appropriate color, given the heat of the last few days.  It was 103°F in Cotati yesterday!

 

 

 

 

All photographs taken on 19 June 2017.

 

Sunrise moon

I looked up around sunrise this morning to see pale pink clouds below a Last Quarter moon:

 

A closer look (click on the image for a larger version):

 

Recently I've been reading a book about tides, so I've been thinking about the moon quite a bit.  How lucky are we to have such a nice moon orbiting the Earth!

Sunrise in the western sky

 

The moon in the western sky at sunrise, as seen from Cotati on 14 February 2017.