I Like Fog....

Over the Bridge and through the town, to Indian Point Park I go.... from home it's normally a 15 minute drive [if that long]. On November 30th, early...about 6:30 a.m., I left home. It was just beginning to have a bit of fog settle in low to the ground. The freeway was spotty visibility. I drove about two miles and then I ran into this! [and it wasn't even rush hour yet!]

Luckily, I was in the center lane of three and was able to get over to exit the freeway onto the 'feeder road' and take the 'round about way. But, that entailed several traffic lights...stop and go, and at a snail's pace 'cause everyone else was exiting when they could. [The freeway is on the top of the feeder road traffic in the photo].

Once I arrived at the park, [the drive took me about 40 minutes instead of 15!] I started to walk along the banks of the North Bay and look for birds. Many brown pelicans, cormorants, and seagulls were on the boulders. I spied a Common Loon a far distance from the shore. They're back for their wintering here in South Texas!! The sun came up through the early morning fog...promising to be a warm and humid morning. A thick blanket of moisture laid low along the bridge, the ships and the skyline.

Floating....

...towers


...ship's conning tower


....Harbor Bridge


...skyline

The sun filtered through the fog as I searched for the Loon that was feeding/diving in the bay along the pier....

As I turned off the pier to return to the car and drive a short distance from Corpus Christi to Portland Texas and Sunset Lakes Trail, I spotted something that I really didn't know what I was looking at. But, I knew that it was most likely a weather phenomenon that doesn't happen much!! In my nearly 70 years of life here on the planet, this is the first time I've ever seen this. I tried several angles to get the entire scene on one photo! I had to take two and then when I got home, I grafted the two together. But, once I walked further, closer to the car, I could finally get a half way decent photo in ONE photo frame!! Sure 'nough, according to online sites, this is AN INCREDIBLY RARE OCCURRENCE.

...bottom photo is taken from a wider perspective needing two images pieced together....

A FOGBOW

At Sunset Lakes, I saw several water fowl, herons, egrets, shorebirds, willets, stilts and more. As I walked the trail, the morning dew still lingered, and I tried to get the sparkle of the dew on the the juniper bushes along the path. Getting the sparkle in the sun is something I've not mastered with the lens yet...