The light in January has been harsh mostly, brighter brights in our eyes and darker shadows wherever the bicyclists and the skunks run the road.
No, this isn't the light we've had lately. This is how we started, on the 3rd of January. Hard to believe it was a couple of weeks ago.
This is downtown Berkeley, and those are students walking to the University Of California campus. It's the only campus in the UC system that gives you an excuse for missing class if you got lost in the fog. One of the perqs of attending UC at the mother ship.
This is more like it, the low sun casts bright light and shadows at unusual angles. A woman walked her dog through here and it looked like a small zebra that had eaten too many doggie treats.
Balloons outside a carpet store.
It's early afternoon, but the shadows of branches decorate this orange wall in the Fourth Street shopping area of Berkeley.
The commute is made tougher in the morning and afternoon. It seems no matter which way you're going on a clear winter day, you're driving into the sun.
The steps to a mattress store. These hand rails were painted white, but look what the low sun has done to them.
A Berkeley grocery known for low prices also gets the low light.
The early shadows keep these soft drinks cold.
A Christmas decoration on Fourth Street. The decorations are still up, which is fine with me. They show the shoppers what real UFOs look like.
And we close with contrails. Backlit by the low sun, they looked like white neon.
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