Fog!

As conditions patterns guide maintain changed over the years, the dense tule fog nosotros used to brand it the wintertime has buy the farm a rare thing. I retrieve days, fifty-fifty weeks, of unbroken fog that drove people mad; instantly fog is something people comment on inwards an excited voice, almost every bit if they're talking close a double rainbow.

The end pair of nights guide maintain been foggy together with eerily quiet. Yesterday the fog lasted all forenoon together with I took the chance to motility out to the Yolo Bypass off Interstate 80 that separates Davis from West Sacramento (and Sacramento) on the other side of the Sacramento River. With the opening of the Sacramento Weir end Tuesday for the foremost fourth dimension inwards eleven years, the Bypass has buy the farm an inland sea. While the fog made it impossible to run into really far, the partially submerged trees made for hauntingly beautiful photographs.

Tree silhouette along Interstate 80

The foremost of the Yolo Causeway on Interstate 80

Trees looking similar a pencil drawing

Looking due east towards Sacramento

The levee along the Yolo Bypass is a pop house to walk only yesterday forenoon I saw nobody.

Yolo Bypass levee barely visible inwards the fog

My married adult woman together with I went dorsum today to walk our faithful dark lab, together with the visibility was much better. In the photograph below, the buildings you lot run into inwards the distance to the left of the trees are inwards downtown Sacramento:

Here is a panorama of the fields on the Davis side of the levee, the levee, together with the flooded Yolo Bypass on the left:

Last nighttime I took payoff of the fog to accept photos around the neighborhood. It felt strange standing exterior adjacent to a tripod amongst nobody else around.