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8:08am my time/5:08pm yours ... and the pictures are cloudy, gray and lovely!

Nature paints such perfect pictures.




There's a world of light out there, I could almost venture out...almost.





I had taken some scenery shots this summer of neighbouring communities but it appears that I deleted them all ...I'll have to take more and post them here. It's great to see where other 8ers live.

ah, deb - if it was cloudy, it probably wasn't so lovely, and surely there wasn't a view... but then, 5 p.m. means almost darkness already, a time when the clouds tend to gather again.

we were skiing today, and the sky was clear and blue and the snow crisp and the view a beautiful kaleidoscope of change!

and mousey, your view looks almost like mine!
amazing... where do you live?

British Columbia, Canada. The Okanagan. Closest city Penticton. Here be a map...

I live about two miles ( as the crow flies) from the California seacoast.

You couldn't exactly see these lovely seascapes from my roof ( though you CAN see the ocean from it!), but you find them very near by me . . .



















( note: I did NOT take these pictures, but they were taken in exactly my location . . .)

Weather today, January 3rd:

Sunny and cloudless ( after a downpour for the last two days) temperature:

63 degreesF light winds ( from the sea) . . .


--Z

ah, deb - if it was cloudy, it probably wasn't so lovely, and surely there wasn't a view... but then, 5 p.m. means almost darkness already, a time when the clouds tend to gather again.

Hi Panta, there was a view and it was beautiful; there were clouds, gray & dark but not sitting 'on' the mountain; above enough to see the view. It also wasn't dark, no obvious sunset ... it really was beautiful. I didn't get a change to watch for long; I wanted to post to few others and then had to hurry off to work... Unless it was a “time delayed” photo … I saw a beautiful view at 5:08pm your time.

ah, mousey... i always thought, from what i've heard and seen, that british columbia must be amazingl - but now i KNOW that i have to go there one day!

zlatko - same goes for california. i am sure i'd love the whole west coast of the north american continent. who knows, one day.... but as for now, i'll start with the east (nyc) at the end of this month.
thanks for sharing your beautiful surrounding with us!

deb, glad you had a view despite the clouds and grey. the alps might not have been visible when you looked, but i just checked, and they aren't today as well.
chakc back occaisonally, if you want and see how the view/ light/ scenery / atmosphere changes according to season, hour and weather!

thank you all for looking and sharing your surroundings.
what a beautifully varied, variegating and varying world we live in!

Panta; FYI: This is the image I captured off your webcam this morning at 8:11am my time ... which should be 5:11pm your time (?) (I'm using The World Clock for our time difference.) ... but if you notice the time on the picture I caputured, you'll see it's 11 minutes behind my own time. Which after I noticed the 11 minute difference, I re:verified that my clock was accurate.

hi deb - yes, that's the view i saw as well when i posted my last reply... lots of grey and clouds in a dying late afternoon light; no glorious sunset or view towards the alps as sometimes seen during that time of the day (and what i'd have loved to show you).
but at least no plaided darkness!

the webcam takes a picture every hour, so that's where the time difference comes from - if you watch at 11 minutes after the full hour, you still see the pic taken at the full hour, in this case at 17:00 o 'clock, which is 5 p.m., at a temperature of minus 4° celsius which is - uhm... 24° fahrenheit?)

there's more sunshine today (at least right now, 11:00 a.m. our time) - have a look!

those are not clouds in the distance - those are the alps.

a few views of today:

1 p.m.


4 p.m.


5 p.m.

I'm still looking for a photo to scan. Funny how I never take too many pictures in my home town, in the rain. I won't bother with the webcams... they're mostly about the freeways. We worship the car in these parts. I'll get back to you.

Ok....

Here's a cliffside view of Shilshole Bay-- Seattle, Wash., looking southwest. (about two & a half miles from my place)....



Much gray-ish-ness, this part of the world, from October-May...

ah, thank you, mnaz.
i love that view. very still and peaceful.

yes, i want to see the american west coast... one day. all those views!!

home for christmas... a few more views of british columbia ... but south-westerly, where it's still autumn in december ...




the great blue heron

i just noticed my shadow in this






...reflections in every still surface.