After nearly a week of summer-like temperatures, our marine layer returned on Tuesday morning, enveloping the garden in fog. As is usually the case with fog, it seemed as though sounds were muted, which an online search reassured me isn't a figment of my imagination. The harbor below us usually produces a steady hum, punctuated with periodic booms. We've become so used to that hum we're hardly aware of it consciously - until it stops. It may be that activity in the harbor stops or slows in response to dense fog but it may also be that my attention, visual and auditory, shifts to the space immediately surrounding me, no longer tracking activity I can't visually pinpoint.
Here's a spin around my garden in the fog with the sound (and narration) turned off.
Enjoy a peaceful day, with any annoying chatter turned off.
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I love fog and the foggy photos. It makes the garden so mysterious and magical.
ReplyDeleteI find it very peaceful - at least as long as I don't have to drive in it.
DeleteThere is something about a foggy morning that adds such beauty and mystery to the landscape. You have captured its allure beautifully!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lee. Fog is definitely more alluring than a late fall heatwave!
DeleteI do love a good foggy day - it has softly transformed your garden beautifully.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it's actually thick enough to drop a little precipitation but unfortunately this wasn't one of those times.
DeleteEverything is so magical in the fog. Your photos are lovely.
ReplyDeleteThanks Cindy. I hope the morning marine layer will become a steady thing for awhile.
DeleteThe return of fog sure feels like normalcy has arrived-just a teaser though most likely. We have had it here too-and it's been a long time since the last foggy November. Fog is great as long as you don't need to drive anywhere !
ReplyDeleteYes, according to today's 7-day forecast, our temperatures are expected to go back up at the end of the week, although it's not expected to last long as long or be as hot as it was last week.
DeleteI love fog - it is so mysterious. I really love the way it quiets everything. Interesting to learn that that particular quality is actually real, as opposed to imaginary. Maybe it has to do with dulling the senses? I remember how wearing ear plugs back in my sculpture lab days changed my perception of the world around me. Losing my hearing made me feel like an invisible observer. It was the same kind of ephemeral, otherworldly feeling that fog gives me.
ReplyDeleteI think part of the effect has to do with our perceptions but apparently the way sound waves move through fog is also a factor. Some sound wavelengths apparently do better than others, hence to deep tones of fog horns.
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ReplyDeleteWe've had quite a few foggy mornings, too, and I love them. As I was looking at your garden my mind did a quick flashback to lots more grass that was certainly not as interesting.
I'm always a little startled when I look back at some of my older "before" shots, Barbara ;)
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