So that was pretty weird, not blogging for a week, the longest I've gone in the four years since this little site was launched. To ease back into the groove, here's the sunrise.

Well, not the sunrise, exactly, but the lightening of the sky that takes place each day as the sun rises behind the wall of mist and fog that we here refer to simply as "June".

A week ago, from the window seat of a Southwest Airlines flight headed for Chicago, it looked like this:

And here's what the marine layer looks like from above: