Pic(k) of the Week: Winter Sky

A winter storm blows away in late afternoon.

Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA. 9 January 2024.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Light as storm passes

i am afraid of what happens

when it stops storming this way round

when the clouds have blown,

and all that is left are me and my prayers for rain.

i'm trying to enjoy the thunder while it lasts,

but it's hard not to miss a storm before it leaves.

— Ryan Jones
a bop for rayden

Poem seen in Georgia Poetry in the Parks. Sunset seen after a violent storm in Decatur, Georgia, USA, 12 January 2023.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Clouds on the hills

Autumn begins today in the Northern Hemisphere. On the U.S. East Coast, that'll be at 9:54 tonight.

The autumnal equinox—also called the September or fall equinox—is the astronomical start of fall in the Northern Hemisphere and spring in the Southern Hemisphere.

Why is it called an equinox? The word comes from the Latin aequus, meaning “equal” and nox, meaning “night.”

During the equinox, the Sun crosses what we call the “celestial equator.” Imagine a line that marks the equator on Earth extending up into the sky above the equator from north to south. Earth’s two hemispheres receive the Sun’s rays about equally. The Sun is overhead at noon as seen from the equator, so at this point, the amount of nighttime and daytime (sunlight) are roughly equal to each other.

— The Old Farmer's Almanac

As to the photo: late summer clouds were feeling the changing season, hanging low over the hills in Blue Ridge, Georgia, on 8 September 2018. I took the photo. panning from a moving car...but from the passenger side.

Summer ends; autumn begins; winter looms.

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Pic(k) of the week: Cold front, at night, over Merrifield

In early evening, a panoramic view of the night sky, over the new Mosaic shopping district, in ...

Fairfax (Merrifield), Virginia.
12 November 2013.

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