I saw a bunch of cool visions today that made me wish I always had a camera at the ready or a mental freeze frame.

The first was driving to Karen and Crystal's place on Alameda Island just before sundown. The sun was setting over downtown San Francisco across the bay, and a biplane was silhouetted coming almost straight for me, but a little to the left. A jet that was still climbing from an Oakland takeoff went right by it, so close that the jet still appeared about three times as large as the biplane, though the biplane was so close I could almost see the pilot. I'm sure they were nearly a mile apart, but it looked like a montage that would scream false if you saw a photo.

Second was driving home to Berkeley. Just after the split from 980 into 24 and 580/80, taking the left hand Hwy 24 lanes, there's a jumble of overpasses that makes a four layer concrete jungle which 24 goes right under. It was all lit from below by floodlights pointing straight up because they're doing construction on the bart tracks there (just before Macarthur station) and I was thinking how Brasil/Blade Runner it seemed, then someone started arc-welding deep in the concrete maze, lighing it up with blue lightning and it all seemed perfect.

After those two the third is just a stupid sight gag and I won't bore you with it. Maybe later I'll go take a picture and put it up.

Have a good one!