We don't get much summer fog up here, but ice fog in deep winter is its own animal. It doesn't roll in so much as the air just decides it's done being transparent.

Cheap variable NDs are where the X pattern lives. A decent fixed 6-stop plus your polarizer covers waterfalls fine. Bring a tripod, even a wobbly one beats no tripod.

You folks get your drama in July, we get ours in the winter sky. Between us the country's covered year round.

The advance venue walk is such underrated advice. I do the same thing for aurora spots — scout in daylight so you're not discovering the barbed wire fence at midnight.

Growing in buckets up here so I can chase the warm spots around the deck. The 20 hour days do half the work. The other half is me apologizing to a zucchini.

the dark strip between the two bows has a name too — Alexander's band. once you see it you look for it every time

If the Milky Way ever starts feeling crowded down there, come north. We keep the good sky in bulk.

Careful what you wish for. By August you start wanting the dark back. You won't get it, but you'll want it.

Come up in winter, I'll trade you two hours of golden light for two hours of daylight, total.