luminous beings are we
Saturday, 23 May 2009 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Gosh, the English language has some good words for light. Apart from luminous: lambent, effulgent, lucid, burnished. This is fortunate, since they become necessary at times in this city. The sun set this evening over a city which had spent the afternoon tucked under a low-lying softness of clouds, which refracted the sunset light into the most incredible peach-coloured glow. Driving home from Hout Bay was slightly surreal: my hands on the steering wheel were glowing slightly, all peachy-gold. It's the most amazingly pervasive light, it feels as though the air is actually holding a clear, glowing liquid like a cup.
Then I turned the corner at the Common, and saw this, which caused me (and the car immediately behind me, actually) to pull over in order to gawk:

(Stitched, as usual, with Autostitch, which is a dandy little utility capable of uncanny intelligence in knowing which bits of cloud match which.)
Then I turned the corner at the Common, and saw this, which caused me (and the car immediately behind me, actually) to pull over in order to gawk:

(Stitched, as usual, with Autostitch, which is a dandy little utility capable of uncanny intelligence in knowing which bits of cloud match which.)
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Date: Saturday, 23 May 2009 05:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sunday, 24 May 2009 06:37 am (UTC)Only 4 months till I level up to the big Decade IV!
But nice pic and I like the poetic language, peachy gold liquid light resonates.
We also had a nice sunset, recent volcanic dust?
Nice name autostitch.
Only 4 months till I level up to the big Decade IV!
But nice pic and I like the poetic language, peachy gold liquid light resonates.
We also had a nice sunset, recent volcanic dust?
Nice name autostitch.
<Not to be confused with autosnitch, the script that turns your
machine into a police informer ;>
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Date: Sunday, 24 May 2009 10:44 am (UTC)Fix your markup, sir! you have nasty HTML-unhappy spew which, when fixed, will render this comment surreally meaningless.
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Date: Sunday, 24 May 2009 04:31 pm (UTC)Peachy.
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Date: Monday, 25 May 2009 08:36 am (UTC)