2 December 2024 – Fog & sun & withdrawals & advances & teases & full glory.

And a few crows.

Let’s set a benchmark. Let’s pick the view on November 28, when the weather chose to beam her sparkling charm in all directions. At 8:08 am, the rising sun bounced off east-facing towers…

and flooded downtown Vancouver, the North Shore and those Coast Mountains with light.

This morning — and, at 8:26, only minutes later in the day — the view is very different.

Fog. With about a block and a half of visibility. As for mountains… What mountains?

A crow waits it out.

Bit of a breakthrough, at 8:50…

largely withdrawn, by 9:41…

though a new line of light opens up at 9:48…

and tempts this crow (presumably equipped with GPS) to take flight on eastward.

His instincts are good.

By 10:37 the clouds are wispy and the haze is beating a retreat.

At 2:52 pm, it’s full sunshine, everywhere you look.

Look while you can. Sunset is barely an hour away.