The amazing sunrises this time of year are almost a routine event. This one was a doubleheader. These are from the same day, a few minutes apart.
Last night the Planning Commission voted 6-1 in our favor to keep commercial development out of this valley. Unfortunately, that doesn’t kill the rezone. There is still a majority on the City Council that will approve it anyway. But, it does give us more ammunition when it goes back to the Growth Management Hearings board.
7:18 AM
7:34 AM
The Spirits of Halloween already making the scene!
OK, so there was a little more color in it than that.
I was up late last night, but I got another 11 pages of comments on the rezone EIS into the City by noon today. Now, I’m working on my speech for Monday’s Planning Commission hearing.
And the moon was along for the ride.
As an update to my last post :
The City has given us more time (until this Friday, noon) to comment on the new Environmental Impact Statement for the commercial rezone in this valley. On the one hand, this is good, because I have plenty more to say. On the other hand, I’m pretty tired of saying it.
A couple of days ago I submitted ten photo-creations to Audubon’s 2015 Photography Awards contest. I was happy they had an “Art”category this year because, though I do have some pretty nice bird photos, I don’t have any as magnificent as those that typically win this competition. I decided to post my entries here one at a time—there is quite a bit of detail in some of them :-). The first is my homage to the eagles that regularly accent my view of the valley. The fun thing for me with Photoshop is that I can take photos that range from excellent to pretty awful on their own and mix them up to create my own visual poetry.
It was a frosty morning and I had gotten up to check the sunrise for pictorial magnificence. Too clear, but as I watched the ground fog moving on the valley floor, I kept thinking, I should get a video of this. Unfortunately for you, it was too fascinating to watch for me to break away and get the camera. It really did look a bit like the ghostly figures of a band of horses rising up out of the fog hundreds of feet in the air and then disappearing—all within a few seconds. The underlying herd was in a stampede down the valley. When it eventually settled down, I did go out and take a couple of pictures of a much calmer scene.
On the recommendation of friends and family, Katie and I checked into the Ester Lee Motel in Lincoln City. After the drive down from Portland I was ready for a nap. I woke up just in time to catch the last moments of the sunset from the window of our room.
I should have anticipated that the sunrise might be worth getting up for, but I didn’t and It was. It was not only a colorful sunrise, but a lovely setting moon. Once again, I woke up just in time to click off a few shots from the window before the colors faded.
After breakfast, we came back to check out and I caught a parting shot from the same window.
Nice lodgings with a nice view–we also saw some whales spouting, but they were a loooong ways out there.