Category Archives: weather

beach haze

i don’t know who took this photo

beach haze

i don’t know who took this photo

Photos: Rebecca Hinden

Damn if that rainbow shot isn’t the best photo ever! Check out her site here!

Photos: Rebecca Hinden

Damn if that rainbow shot isn’t the best photo ever! Check out her site here!

Photography-Daniel Melo

Love the eerie silence in these ones: More here!

Photography-Daniel Melo

Love the eerie silence in these ones: More here!

death smells

I was driving over a rainy and windy Lion’s Gate Bridge, absentmindedly listening to a hockey game on the radio on my way back from a random drive up to Squamish, just to get the hell away from the sickly

death smells

I was driving over a rainy and windy Lion’s Gate Bridge, absentmindedly listening to a hockey game on the radio on my way back from a random drive up to Squamish, just to get the hell away from the sickly

wicker

On the front porch, I sat down on dad’s old wicker chair. As my butt touched the brittle weave, I heard splintering sounds, the sound of tearing, fibers being pulled apart. The chair was weak, but it held me as

wicker

On the front porch, I sat down on dad’s old wicker chair. As my butt touched the brittle weave, I heard splintering sounds, the sound of tearing, fibers being pulled apart. The chair was weak, but it held me as

colder than…

It was cold. I was cold. The gnawing feeling of blue seemed to blanket all around me, knotting my muscles, making it hard to ignore the feeling that I was freezing to death. Pale white, my hands fumbled along the

colder than…

It was cold. I was cold. The gnawing feeling of blue seemed to blanket all around me, knotting my muscles, making it hard to ignore the feeling that I was freezing to death. Pale white, my hands fumbled along the

nuclear

Outside, everything looked on the verge of chaos. The sun’s frantic setting cast an eerie flaming orange light that reflected with searing intensity off of the skyscrapers’ mirrored exteriors down the city canyon that I stared down. It seemed like

nuclear

Outside, everything looked on the verge of chaos. The sun’s frantic setting cast an eerie flaming orange light that reflected with searing intensity off of the skyscrapers’ mirrored exteriors down the city canyon that I stared down. It seemed like

arguments

Worried, I looked at my mother, and my attention pivoted between the light that was reflecting here and there to the fact that my parents never just talked anymore, they never asked each other how they were or talked about

arguments

Worried, I looked at my mother, and my attention pivoted between the light that was reflecting here and there to the fact that my parents never just talked anymore, they never asked each other how they were or talked about

ocean picture

He told me of the fields around the house, of swaying grass and the sound of the sea as it pummeled the shoreline. I had never seen the ocean, so in his letters he described the sounds and smells of

ocean picture

He told me of the fields around the house, of swaying grass and the sound of the sea as it pummeled the shoreline. I had never seen the ocean, so in his letters he described the sounds and smells of

flying clouds

The plane continued to climb, steeply climbing through an endless soupy cloud that brightly reflected the plane’s wingtip lights off of their thick white and grey backdrops. I wondered if the pilots felt claustrophobic. I wondered if they ever felt

flying clouds

The plane continued to climb, steeply climbing through an endless soupy cloud that brightly reflected the plane’s wingtip lights off of their thick white and grey backdrops. I wondered if the pilots felt claustrophobic. I wondered if they ever felt

bookends

On the way to school, we walked in the silence that bookends a chaotic school day. I liked the silence, in fact I loved it. It was the exact opposite of what it was like at home. It was the

bookends

On the way to school, we walked in the silence that bookends a chaotic school day. I liked the silence, in fact I loved it. It was the exact opposite of what it was like at home. It was the

seams

Towering above, the quiet exterior of the building rose seamlessly into the blanket of clouds that enveloped everything around us. Grey into grey, it looked like the building went on forever, just like all the sidewalks around us.

seams

Towering above, the quiet exterior of the building rose seamlessly into the blanket of clouds that enveloped everything around us. Grey into grey, it looked like the building went on forever, just like all the sidewalks around us.

vapor trails

Back where I’d woken up, nothing seemed familiar, except for the plume of air that slowly exited my mouth and cut across the one small patch of light in the room that escaped through a crack in the thick curtains

vapor trails

Back where I’d woken up, nothing seemed familiar, except for the plume of air that slowly exited my mouth and cut across the one small patch of light in the room that escaped through a crack in the thick curtains

space shuttle

That winter, when the space shuttle Columbia was up in orbit, the newspaper published daily the times when it would cross the cold winter sky, and I would go outside in the cold evening and go over to the park

space shuttle

That winter, when the space shuttle Columbia was up in orbit, the newspaper published daily the times when it would cross the cold winter sky, and I would go outside in the cold evening and go over to the park

snow tires

Alone, I drove in silence. The car seemed subdued in its hum of snow tires on broken asphalt chunks and ankle deep gleaming potholes. I loved the sound of winter through the car’s hum, the cold rubbing against the hood

snow tires

Alone, I drove in silence. The car seemed subdued in its hum of snow tires on broken asphalt chunks and ankle deep gleaming potholes. I loved the sound of winter through the car’s hum, the cold rubbing against the hood