I’m not normally a morning person. I have my routines that I do by rote until my head clears and I can think properly. Moving quickly is not something I am known for doing in the morning.

However, the other morning, I opened the blinds as usual, took a gander of the weather, and paused. I saw this:

I ran and got the camera and took far too many shots of what has the be the oddest fog I’ve ever seen. In case you can’t tell what’s odd about this scenario, here’s a closeup.

I-5 just… disappeared. Talk about fog rolling in (or out, as case may be). I’ve never seen fog look so obviously like a cloud just sitting on top of something. Everything else looked normal, somewhat fall-like, not to mention cold. And yes I stood on our cold, cold balcony in my pajamas taking these pictures. Fortunately no one pays attention to their neighbors where we live.

Then I happened to notice a spider busy at work on said balcony.

I’ve never had the privilege of watching a spider actually do the round and round part of making a web. Mesmerizing. Was extremely hard to get a decent shot — this was the best I could do. I can kind of see why the lad finds spiders so intensely interesting :)

Ain’t he cute? :)

H took the best train picture ever:

I just love it. I love the perspective — it’s always good to get down and see what things are like from the kid’s height.

It also gave me another idea. I have this crazy urge to do lots of these “train scenarios”. I just think they’re really cute. I know, sometimes I have too much time to think.

We have a full moon tonight, and it is beautiful! I tried to snap some pictures, except that’s extraordinarily difficult without a tripod. Note to self: Get a tripod.

Anyway, some of them didn’t turn out too badly. Much prettier in person, but oh well.

We had such a wonderful day at the zoo on Sunday. We’ve started trying to go on the weekends because Boo just wears himself out, which is good because then he takes a really long nap. It was a grey, crisp day, and turned out the animals were in a very photogenic mood!

Finally got around to reviewing my 4th of July photos. Made a little album of my favourites.

Click here for the whole album.

We had such a wonderful location for the fireworks over Lake Union! There were a few houses in the way but mostly it was great. LOUD too. The booming kept setting off car alarms! It was a good thing Boo had his times warped since we just returned from the trip to the UK and he was awake anyway. But then he fell asleep. With all that racket! And to think a toilet flushing can wake him up… sigh!

We’ve seen two rainbows recently with all the rain. One was even a double rainbow, although the pics didn’t turn out as nice. I like this one though.

I noticed I have a crocus blooming in the front yard. How cool is it that I can get this close to it with my new suave camera? See, Jason, sometimes instant gratification in the digital age is a good thing.

My favorite flower is the purple Dutch Iris. I think they are absolutely perfect. They are elegantly simple yet intriguing intricate. That color purple is stunning and then nature goes and puts in the perfect complimentary dash of yellow! My perfect bouquet would be about four dozen all stuffed into one vase. No greenery required.