Haze

The photos in this post were made in Sycamore Canyon (in Riverside, California) on the morning of August 31, 2010. The summer haze is easy to see in the middle distance.

That’s what we like to call it: haze. It is really a mixture of smog and low-lying mist.

Haze. We would prefer not to think about it. But the smog has become considerably thinner and generally less harmful than when I arrived on these shores in 1971. At that time I worked a graveyard shift for the Press-Enterprise. It was possible then to stand on top of Mt. Rubidoux before sunrise and watch the smog, a dark brown cloud, rolling slowly into Riverside's long valley.