Fog and Moonlight
12/17/2010
Last night I saw something very beautiful which I'd never seen before and may never see again. I had been out around 9 and seen that the sky was very clear, so the three-quarters moon was very bright. Later, around 11, I walked the dogs down to the bay as usual. A light fog had formed, just thick enough to soften and blur everything, but not thick enough to block the moonlight altogether. The moon was halfway down the western sky and was clearly visible, though somewhat dimmed, and looking straight at it revealed the way the mist was constantly swirling. The tiny droplets of which the fog was composed scattered the light, giving a very faint radiance to the fog itself.
We don't get fog very often, and the chances of this combination of circumstances occurring again are not great. I wish I could keep the picture in my mind but it's already fading.
Sounds lovely.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet Cupo | 12/17/2010 at 11:06 PM
'twas. Wish I could describe it better. I just got back from tonight's walk and it's a normal cloudy night (which is still pretty nice), too cloudy to see the moon. No fog, just a chilly wind.
Posted by: Mac | 12/17/2010 at 11:22 PM
The two most remarkable natural phenomena I have seen:in Alabama, swimming in the Gulf at night, when the waves were phosphorescent, and last summer driving after a rainstorm. The sun was out and little rainbows were forming in the mist that rose from the ground and also in the spray kicked up by passing cars. It was like the world was a whirl of rainbows...
Posted by: Daniel Nichols | 12/18/2010 at 10:58 AM
We get that aqua-luminescence once in a while in the bay, though not very often, being 10 miles or so from the Gulf itself. Those rainbows sound wonderful.
Btw I was at the Gulf last weekend and saw no signs of the oil spell, except for cleanup crews and machinery apparently digging deep and looking for it.
Posted by: Mac | 12/18/2010 at 01:20 PM