The nighttime glare through my windshield is distorted by the drops of rain left after a recent sprinkling. A prominent cluster of bright streaks glow in a pattern of vaguely blue-green, with a tail-like feature that shows a bright orange, amid a field of bronze colored bubbles.

Mysterious, is it not? For me, these streaks and the blobs of light tend to trigger the same effort as what one experiences while gazing at the shapes of clouds. My mind leans toward these patterns as representing a fish as it grazes in a silty pond.

A gooseberry jelly fish is easy to overlook on the beach, being small enough to be mistaken for dropped food bits of someone's lunch. But, I happened to bring my microscope this morning, which allowed me to get a very close look at this mysterious animal. Its almost completely transparent body allows us to see internal organs that occupy possibly two-thirds its interior with a globular amber structure. It reminds me of the diagrams of animal cells, the amber organ having the appearance of a cell nucleus with an arrangement of clusters of dark lines distributed throughout the region. Tiny bubbles are also visible in the clear membrane that surround the aforementioned organ.

Part of the interior and exterior of a broken sand dollar shell is shown up close. The interior shows a texture that reminds me of the chewing surface of molars. The external portion appears comparatively smooth, perhaps like the surface of a smooth brick.

A lion's mane jellyfish was overturned on the beach. Usually, when we find a jelly, the tentacles are not visible. Maybe the birds like to grab them up, but not this morning. Its tentacles are visible trailing toward the water, still attached to the animal. They seem to have air bubbles inside of them, or another structure with a similar appearance. How interesting and surprising!

A flowering plant that is nearly done with its flowers for the season appears somewhat like a bouquet of paper pompoms attached to a handful of skewers, glowing in the morning sunlight. I believe this plant is called Pearly Everlasting.

Our Wedding Anniversary led us to visit Westport. It was especially nice to hang out with my favorite friend, moreso because we found some interesting things on the beach. Having brought a microscope, I was able to capture some very small details that surprised me. Naturally, I also snapped flowers.

A bright red leaf glistened with dew as it rested on a patch of deep green clover. The vibrant interaction of the colors seemed extra striking to me, and offered a clear reminder that the season is changing.

Yesterday morning, my homecoming from work presented me with a colorful surprise. There it was, just laying on the side of the road, the first leaf I had noticed of the coming season. Autumn waits for nothing. But, it arrives with a burst of colors.

#autumniscoming

Centered against a black background is the top portion of a lit candle. The flame highlights pillars of the wax that had coated the stick during previous burns, showing as glowing stripes of color in the darkness.

Dim candlelight to set the tone for my overnight lunch. It feels somewhat like a vigil, but it is helping me to calm my mind a little.

Viewed down the playing surface toward the body of the guitar, the courses of strings create a lopsided grid pattern against the frets as their lines appear to converge in the shadows behind the faintly visible bridge.

I haven't yet created a profile that focuses on my music hobby, so I'm sharing a little about it here now...

New Guitar Day! #NGD #NewGuitarDay

Thanks to an app that paid me for game interactions, I was able to save up for a new guitar.

A munchkin kitten explores the changing shadows atop a cardboard delivery box, as she is illuminated by a rainbow of colors cast through the nearby window (out of frame).

A new addition to our family, Minoes (a Dutch name that kind of sounds like "meeNOOS") is the most self-sufficient finder of interesting things.

The ambient light filtering through an overcast sky (out of frame) was still sufficiently bright to effect a subtle glow from a buttercup's open petals.

"Cow parsnips" is the verdict I received from Google. These delicate clusters of blossoms appear in umbrella-like canopies that span a diameter of about 8 inches. There are several such canopies growing from a single plant, each of which contains perhaps 20 divisions, somewhat like mini bouquets of these male flowers (numbering around 30 per division). While visible without magnification, the tiny flowers in this division are so small that it's difficult to appreciate the textures and pale yellow centers against the white petals.

Here are a couple of items of evidence from our morning walk. I am so thankful for protected public areas like this.

A buttercup flower, having opened its petals a few moments before, glows in the radiance of the bright morning sunlight shining through a low canopy of grasses and nearby flowers.

A white butterfly, possibly of the cabbage variety, perched on the open blossom of a dandelion. I think it searches for nectar. Maybe, it just rests while taking a moment to enjoy the warmth of the morning.

Good morning! Here are a couple of photos I captured after returning home from work. The cell cam seems to do fine. How nice it is to have such a convenient way to remember something nice.

With its wings spread and a beak filled with a tuft of waterlogged grasses, a cormorant lands on the frame of a platform that contains its nesting family. Its perch situated above the nest, it surveyed the crowded space below to calculate another landing, and the delivery of its cargo.

The port is a favorite haunt of the harbor seal, one of whom surfaced for a sunny breath while seeming to casually swim in and out of the marina on its hunt for a late mourning snack.

A cormorant and a seagull perch on the frame of a platform that stands at the end of a breakwall. They may be familiar with each other, having traveled similar routes and lingered in similar areas. But, they don't appear to be more intimately acquainted than parents separately passing time in benches along the perimeter of a playground.

Four pelicans take a post-meal rest atop the length of one of the marina walls. The moss that covers the pilings shows a bright (chartreuse?) color, a clear sign of the season, and a vibrating contrast to the teal color prominently decorating a resident fishing boat in the background. It's anyone's guess as to the emotions the birds are experiencing, but the appearance of the scene is playful, even joyfully vibrant.

My wife and I visited the coast for a springtime refresher. I captured a few photos to mark the occasion.

The pussywillow seeds have erupted from their casings amid recent rain storms. Their down glistens under the overcast sky with the remaining beads of water, having been captured by the water resistant fibers. They seem to pop in contrast against the remnants of last year's foliage.

I clump of "old man's beard" has been growing on this fallen twig, likely for several years before the thin branch fell from its tree. The lichen has seemed to emit a glow when I've observed it in past years near springtime, this sample seems to do likewise when juxtaposed against a dark background.

This is the morning view of a creek is as I look out from an old railroad bridge, modified to accommodate walkers, in the direction of the sun. The light is filtered through an overcast sky, but the shape of the sun is clear. The waterflow curves in the foreground, its surface lightly rippled, as it passes several pilings that had once supported industrial surfaces in service of the nearby port. A few evergreen trees have survived here, along with a variety of wild grasses and low shrubs, visible on both banks.

The athletic complex where we parked is surrounded by this meadow, as well as an arboreal forest. Seen here are several varieties of wild grasses, growing in clumps alongside an irrigation ditch. In the background is a small section of the arboreal forest, and the low slope of a nearby hill, with the filtered light of the morning sun.

Walking with my wife at a nearby rail trail, a new discovery by my wife, we attempted to let the evidence of Spring help to restore some joy.

This view is from the parking lot of a medical clinic. Shown in the image, a field of raindrops suspended somewhat like a constellation against the windshield of my old Saturn Ion. In the blurred background are two clusters of ornamental grasses that create a burst-like pattern of stripes, somewhat like onstage pyrotechnics at a big venue concert. Behind the grasses is the horizontal stripes of the clinic's exterior siding. I felt like this was an interesting mixture of patterns that just needed to be captured. Fortunately, my cellphone camera was sufficiently up to the task for my satisfaction.

This is a brilliant September sunrise, tinted by the smoke from wildfires that was drifting in our direction, viewed as I prepared to commute home from my overnight shift.

I'm sharing just a couple more images taken through the vehicle windshield, also from a while ago.

I hope you enjoy!

I do have a couple more to share that I had thought were bundled in this group, but I'll post them later.

This image is a view from the city bus during a winter commute. Droplets of condensation are visible on the window interior, the result of the reduced airflow as the cold and wet weather outside prompted passengers to close the vents. Two spots of color light through the foggy plane, the red and amber traffic signals at the nearby intersection.

Another view through the city bus window shows the blurred landscape of town. The colors of the ornamental trees along the route seem to be a mist, maybe from an airbrush, partially smeared, rubbed into blotches of green, yellow and brown across the surface.

The foggy silhouette of the traffic signal is cast through the condensed breaths of bus passengers. The bleak grey light seems just enough to break through the fog on both sides of the window, and the shapes of the post and a few trees nearby are just distinct enough to discern their rough identities. Traveling on the bus this day would require heightened vigilance for the commuters to know when they approach their respective stops.

The evidence of Spring glows dustily in the glare as the sunlight casts rays through the greenbelt trees and across the apartment window.

Not intent to present it as my shtick, I'm sharing these older images to just expand on my previous post a little bit. Sometimes, just looking through the window as the conditions change on either side, we can see that even the window is altered.

A cropped, high contrast image of a Dutch rabbit's face, which features a distinct black and white mask-like pattern. The white appears as a "teardrop" shape with its narrow point at the crown of the rabbit's head, and and its "bulb" spreading over the nose and mouth. The black covers the ears, eyes, cheeks and chin. I see some common shapes between the sumi-e artwork posted at the head of this thread, and the rabbits of this variety.

I hope this doesn't read as disrespectful. I do recognize the abstract reference to the waterfall, and I love the textures you are bringing out with this technique. I also see Rorschach's pet bunny.

Fractals of ice catch glare from the parking lot lamps as they spread across my windshield.

The stripes of condensation streak the side window.

Hello! For my introductory post on this platform, I'm sharing a feature of my breaks at work: windshield weather from recent few weeks.

For me, the everyday interactions of the world with the windows around me can be very interesting to observe.