With our evening fog overhead and yesterday’s fog stuck beyond the Oakland Hills across the bay, the Belt of Venus is rising in pink hues as the sun sets out over the Pacific.
Every evening during summer this panorama unfolds, never the same and always equally dramatic.
Working with geometry nodes in Blender brings back a lot of the same feeling as working with POV-Ray back in the 90s. You just describe geometry and textures in a very abstract way and then the renderer goes off and calculates the result.
It feels incredible that it is so long ago as the memories are still fresh in my mind. While time slowly grinds down everything, I won’t forget Tian An Men and all the young protesters for as long as I am alive.
The first fire of the season in the Bay Area started today in Napa. Some of the smoke seems to have circled down past Oakland and is now drifting over the East Bay hills.
Let’s hope the fire crews will be able to slow this fire as it is close to the towns of Yountville and Napa.