Misty Weather Makes Me All Atwitter

Seabirds love this weather. The backlighting created in these conditions shows up every breathing hole and sandtrail so clearly, as if etched in glass. The buffet is open! Scores of shore birds are scything the air, delighted. When the weather is hot in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, the marine layer moves in, as it has today, creating a lovely world of blue, laying down a magical mist in the lagoon and wreathing Tillamook Head in fog at its base. The lenticular cap, nearly always in place, adds to the mysterious beauty of the day.