Spotted in a storefront at the mall while Christmas shopping. Sorry about the image quality, but if you can see past the reflection, it’s a female mannequin with a reindeer’s head, wearing what appears to be a corset, a tutu, full-length gloves and a white beehive (hairstyle).
Gramma got mashed up with a reindeer?
As near as I can tell, all they sell are iPod/iPhone accessories. But they’re right across from the Apple Store.
I spotted a great 22° halo around the sun this morning, almost by accident. There was a reflection in the rear window of the car in front of me that looked like it could be a distorted contrail or it could be a distorted halo. Once I parked, I looked — and there was this clear halo, almost 3/4 of the circle. The missing quadrant was to the lower right, so I just framed this to get as much of the visible part as I could.
It wasn’t really this blue. The G1 tends to make images in daylight a little extra blue, and seems to have really gone overboard on this one. I’ve got to remember to bring the regular camera with me more often!
While driving around lunchtime, I saw an airplane pass overhead, its contrail casting a shadow on the thin cloud layer below. I had my camera handy, and was stopped at an intersection, so I snapped a couple of shots. As often seems to happen, the first, haphazard one was the best.
The diagonal line extending down from the sun is, I believe, a sun pillar-like effect in the trails left by the windshield wipers. Also: Unless I’m mistaken, you can just barely see the edge of a halo in the feathery clouds at bottom center. It’s the slight reddening.
A few hours earlier, I saw this:
I glanced out the window while changing lanes on the freeway this morning & noticed the bottom edge of this halo. By the time I had a chance to stop the car and really look, the lower arc seemed to have disappeared, but the left side was sharply visible – as was a sundog. I rolled down the window and snapped a couple of photos while waiting for the light to change. Unfortunately, I couldn’t position anything to block the sun, so the exposure isn’t all that great.
By the time I reached my destination and parked, it had all faded except for a slightly bright patch in the clouds to the left.
We are South Coast Plaza of Borg. You will be overstimulated!
Seriously, after only 20 minutes at the mall on Saturday, I was already feeling overwhelmed. The children’s choir singing “Holly Jolly Christmas” right outside the first store did not help!
I miss the Ghirardelli shop. It was my favorite way to just retreat from the madness that is South Coast Plaza during the Christmas shopping season and prepare myself for the next hour or two.
Oh, yeah…here’s a better photo of the bridge and the mall segment formerly known as Crystal Court.
Somehow I don’t think he’s taking this quite as seriously as Faire folk might prefer…
At the Renaissance Pleasure Faire held at Glen Helen Park near San Bernardino, California in spring 2001. (Yeah, I’ve been scanning old photos again…)
Update: I like this filmstrip-style filter and border. It’s a good fit for a Throwback Thursday on Instagram.
Smoke from a brush fire near San Juan Capistrano, seen from the parking structure at the Irvine Spectrum. I wouldn’t have caught this if I hadn’t checked Twitter when I sat down to lunch and seen an update from @LATimesfires. (As it is, I still had to make do with the camera on my phone.)
The picture was taken around 1:30. It’s about 3:30 now, and I don’t see a plume anymore (though it could be behind a building) — just a smear of haze to the south and west.
According to the LA Times, the fire started when a tractor crashed into a power pole this morning.
