Fog II
December 5th, 2008Second shot from the air of the thick and flight-delaying fog. I did a bit of color tweak on this one.
Some people didn’t mind the fog in SF. I always did. Especially in the summer. There is no summer in SF. There is a really nice delayed summer in late September and Octoboer, but it’s not as long or as consistent as the summers in other locales.
The idea of grilling in San Francisco in summer means something entirely different than it does in climates where grilling means shorts, flip flops and cold beer. In San Francisco, grilling out means a parka, shivering and running back inside with the cooking implements to keep the roaming bitchy hipsters from hurting themselves. o
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This is my favorite plane picture ever. And I’ve seen a lot of plane pictures.
Don’t ask me why, I think Lord of the Rings when I see this. It’s got a very other-worldly quality, which is cool.
We live about 1 and a half hours north of SF. I really don’t mind the fog, especially when I can stay home and look at it through my living room bay window with a cup of something hot in my hand. I have about a 10 minute commute to work, and today it took me 20 minutes. It was quite thick and soupy. What is the most scary are the people who don’t know how to drive in the fog- going 45 mph when they can see taillights and should be keeping up with the flow of traffic, braking when they don’t need to. Driving in the San Joaquin Valley during this time of year is an art form…
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i have always thought that the sf faithful were in some state of denial about the quality of the weather. working there as long as i did while living in socal, i used to argue when i would hear someone local comment on how great their weather was.
tolerable and temperate isn’t great. san diego is great. oc is great. sydney is great. southern spain is great.
53 degrees at mid day in june? NOT GREAT.
(that said, october in sf is frequently fantastic)
I grew up in OC and now live in SF so I have to agree with Themightyjimbo (and Jon). The weather here SUCKS!
October is always beautiful, but thats about it. It is so funny to watch the tourists walk around in the summer freezing. because they thought they were coming to “Sunny California”!
Booooo Fog!
Hey Jon,
thought i’d copy this over to ya since Dooce already had nearly 500 to weed through (Xmas music stuff).
Oh, SO glad you asked (I actually sent you one I love…Jill Sobule’s version of “Merry Xmas to the Family”).
There are probably repeats in my list that you’ve gotten before:
1. Sufjan Stevens Christmas
2.Brushfire Records Christmas (new this year)
3. John Denver Rocky Mountain Christmas
4. John Prine Christmas (it’s really good)
5. Mindy Smith Holiday album
6. Ella Fitzgerald – Christmas
7. Jethro Tull Christmas Album
8. Emmylou Harris – Light of the Stable
A few individual songs (I’ve been listing many of these in daily videos for a Daily Christmas countdown on my own blog)
Winter Song -Eisley
All that I Want – Weepies
Just like Christmas – Low
Christmas Song -Raveonettes
Valley Winter Song – Fountains of Wayne
All I Ever Get for Christmas is Blue – Over the Rhine
Darlin (Christmas is Coming ) – Over the Rhine
Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End ) – Darkness
Ok, I got more but I’d have to go look them up (Jon, drop me a line if you want more of a list…we started compiling these YEARS ago and gave out cds of Christmas music for a long time…I’d say we have a couple hundred really good/out of the norm…some cool old blues stuff etc.)
oh, and this one too…it’s a vimeo video (band is The Boy Least Likely To, “The First Snowflake).
http://vimeo.com/2370030?pg=embed&sec=2370030
enjoy…merry xmas to you guys…seriously on the muzak dude…we got tons o’ christmas and can totally set you guys up, gift from us to you.
Amazing photo…wish I’d had your skill and camera leaving Portland, OR the other day. Most amazing sunset ever…
Also Frightened Rabbit – you seem to have good taste in music – if you haven’t already checked them out you should.
Finally, It’s a Cow Christmas…for your wife.
Interestingly enough, I hated fall in SF. It was too hot, too sunny, too mockingly unfall-like. I missed the crisp air of the fall season in the Northeast, the hot apple cider, the blanket weather. And of course, the whole foliage concept was missing altogether. Rainy/foggy cool summers I did not mind a whole lot (much better than hot sticky humidity), though some beach weather would’ve been nice, too. [shrug] To each their own, I guess.