I believe this is the first time I’ve ever taken pictures of a sunset during the winter. I guess the lesson is, you’re not going to get good photos if you don’t get out there.

Funny how a casual glance up on the way home, can turn into the best sight of the afternoon.

I grabbed my camera and tripod, and this was the best shot I got. I can’t help but think how much better it would have been with a longer lens. Hmmm… I wonder what my tax refund will be this year?

On the morning of my last full day at Monterey, I got up early to watch the sunrise.

The morning sun lit up the entrance to Old Fisherman’s Wharf nicely.

Early Wednesday evening, it looked like I’d be in store for another nice sunset. Instead, right before the sun went down, some ominous-looking clouds blew in.

Sure enough, about a hour and a half later, a mild thunderstorm moved over the campground.

The speed these storms were moving was almost amazing. The entire sky changed from sunny, to grey, to almost black within about 20 minutes. Then a little while later things would brighten up, and there would even be some patches of blue sky. While all this was happening the weather conditions were going from warm and muggy, to cool, then a few minutes later, warm and muggy again.

What you can’t see in the still picture below is that the clouds directly above were moving northeast, yet the ones in the distance (behind the transmission tower) were moving south.

The sun peeked out from the clouds in the middle of a rainstorm late this afternoon.

See the tips of the trees in the bottom right corner? Autumn is coming…