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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2014-05-31 06:33 pm

Farmer's market; pretty sky

I went to the University District Farmers' Market today, getting there around noon. I came home with cherries, radishes, tomatoes, and apple strudel, and bought and ate a salmon slider for (part of) lunch. I saw another shopper carrying strawberries, and asked where he'd gotten them; he told me, but warned that they might be all gone, which they were. Still, the cherries were more than I'd been hoping for. (There were lots of other vegetables, and a lot of meat and fish, but I didn't want to risk carrying the meat and fish around for an hour and a half or more on such a nice warm day.)

The bus from here to the U District was rerouted because the 520 bridge is closed (again) this weekend. On the way over, that made little difference to me, though a couple of passengers jumped off suddenly when the driver announced that the next stop after the Bellevue Transit Center was going to be in the U District. By the time I was coming back east, there was a lot of traffic (closing one of two bridges across the lake will do that) and a slow trip.

I looked out the bus window while we were headed south on I-5 and saw a swath of cloud in gorgeous green and red. The color shifted toward the orange, faded, then came back again. I think this was a circumhorizontal arc, though not as complete as the one shown on the Astronomy Picture of the Day a week ago. (I looked at that day's APOD, read the copy, and guessed that I'd be unlikely to see one this far north; sometimes it's pleasant to have been mistaken.)

Here's a cell phone photo of the cloud and a tree, cropped but not otherwise altered:

a horizontal streak of rainbow colors on a blue sky, behind a dark fir tree.

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