At 3:30pm in Santa Clara, the light outdoors was blood orange and the light levels looked like about an hour past sunset last evening. It's lightened up a little now, but I'm staying in for the rest of the day. There's absolutely no point in going out without a darn good reason to, given the mess out there.
G > On Sep 9, 2020, at 3:45 PM, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > wow... > ann > > On 9/9/2020 12:33 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> There is no "safety" in 2020, it seems. AQI was up into the 130+ "Unhealthy" >> range for the past three days along with ambient temperatures floating up >> into the 100-115 range even here in the SF Bay Area. The particulates in the >> air are particularly bad. >> >> I stay indoors the past two days, with the AC running on low and air >> exchange to help filter the air. The sun has been a dull orange this >> morning. Yesterday evening, I needed to get some exercise so went for a >> short walk at sunset time (6-7 pm) as air temps fell into the low 80°F/high >> 70°Fs range. I carried the camera... >> >> https://www.flickr.com/gp/gdgphoto/NJ2Rua (all with Leica CL + Voigtländer >> 10mm) >> >> I won't say "Enjoy!" There's little to be enjoyed about having air quality >> so bad that even people with healthy lungs are at risk. On top of COVID-19, >> BLM, insane/absurd BS on the national and international political front, >> earthquakes, hurricanes of unprecedented strength ... 2020 has it in for us. >> >> Hunker down and endure as best you can seems the operative advice. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.