seepunkrun replied to your post “So I’ve been thinking…”

you gotta do what feels right. do it.

I’ve had about three separate conversations between them pop into my head.  not quite an arc, but it’s getting closer…

Maybe we can chat sometime and you can help me sort out if there’s really enough there…  There’s an exhange in the home gym that I might have to write even if I don’t write the whole thing.

semperama:

In Babylon by semperama

The place is hard to find unless you’re looking for it, just a dark, unassuming door in the middle of the block, no sign overhead to advertise its presence. It’s hard to find unless it’s after dark and the door has been thrown wide to spill thumping bass and drunken cheering out onto the sidewalk. Unless you nearly trip over the sandwich board advertising two-for-one lap dances after 10 p.m. and three-buck well drinks on Sunday nights. Zach doesn’t even know if it has a name, this place. Even after he’s gone every Friday night for two months, he still doesn’t know.

unboxingearth:

Horsetail Falls, Yosemite National Park, California

Via @respeckled: #HOW

I know how!  This is a waterfall on the eastern portion of El Capitan in Yosemite.  It only flows briefly during the early spring (see the snow at the top).  It’s nestled into the bend in the face of the rock, and for about a week, at sunset, the sun is aligned perfectly such that most of the eastern face of El Cap is in shadow, but this little bend is not, and the orange light of the sunset illuminates the spray and makes it look like lava.  It only last a few minutes every night, and for about one week out of the year.  If it’s cloudy that week, no “fire fall”.  This year it wasn’t cloudy AND we had an amazingly wet winter, so the “fire fall” (illuminated Horsetail Falls) was SPECTACULAR.

Here’s my favorite pic from this year, showing more context so you can see how the shadows work.  The darkness gets closer to the falls as the sun continues to set, until finally the falls themselves arn’t illuminated.  The picture above is closer to sunset and focused just on the upper part of the falls.  It’s a completely natural phenomenon, rare, but predictable, and a treat for those who get themselves in the right place at the right time.

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Photo by Anita Ritenour.  Here’s another photographer’s description of where to stand to get a fire fall image, and when: https://blog.aaronmphotography.com/2016/12/30/horsetail-falls-2017-yosemite-national-park/