Driving in this morning, I noticed a bit of mist wisping off of some of the agricultural ponds along C470 — and more over by Chatsfield Dam, which is a regular location for tule fog sorts of phenomena. Fog is one of the weather conditions I miss from loving closer to a coast, and it’s interesting to see the mist “lurking in the hollows” and slowly giving way in the early morning light …<\/p>\n
Until I rounded the corner from C470 onto I-70 and ran into a freaking wall <\/em>of it. 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