Gorge-ous Sunrise

After at least a dozen sunrise drives up the gorge in the past year, I was finally rewarded with a colorful sunrise! And in summer, no less! We left later than planned on Saturday so I thought I would miss the twilight and sunrise times, and I did. But maybe because of the heatwave we're going through, there was a surprising amount of haze in the air, and the sun rose weak and red, and the sky glowed a great peachy orange. A short backtracking detour to the westbound vista point near Multnomah Falls got me to the vantage point photographed here. Lucky, lucky timing!

Linking to Weekend Reflections and Skywatch Friday.

March 10

Just yesterday I noticed that we've got orange poppies blooming around here.  This one was in a little flower garden by West Davis Pond.  I saw it walking Clover, but I had to come back to make a close up photo.  I only take my 80-200 lens on dog walks these days.   But I've got this crazy +10 macro filter that fits my old 18-55 lens (52mm).  And so that's what I always use for my close ups.