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90 Second Escape: Light, and its many moods

JoeMiller — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:52:59 +0000

Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb.

Today’s 90-Second Escape: Light, and its Many Moods

Think about the the highlights of your forays into the wild, the things that bubble to the top when you recount an outing to friends, and the obvious comes to mind: temperature, terrain, who you hiked with, wildlife. Your recollections of all those, though, are colored by one thing: light. Sunlight illuminating a pool on a small creek, or casting long shadows at the end of the day. A cloudless day atop a bald after a cold front has moved through, everything crystal clear for miles. A spring wildflower dancing in a light breeze, reflecting the sun it will soon lose to a leafed-out canopy.

Here’s a 90 Second salute to light and how it’s colored some of our recent adventures.

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90 Second Escape: Fall’s Fading Light

JoeMiller — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:42:36 +0000

Today’s 90-Second Escape: Fall’s Fading Light

Daylight is suddenly becoming a scarce commodity. Tonight, for instance, the sun will set at 6:59; come Saturday, we’ll run out of daylight by 6:52 — a full seven minutes earlier. For those of us who get our energy from being out in the sun, that’s a sobering trend.

Maybe that’s why the last light of day becomes all the more special this time of year. If you don’t have a chance to get out and enjoy those last rays of day this week, you can always experience 90 seconds of it with us.

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90 Second Escape: Blue Skies

JoeMiller — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:20:52 +0000

I grew up in Colorado, where the sun shines, on average, 642 days a year. It’s now been four days since I’ve seen the sun here in the Triangle and the weather people say we shouldn’t count on seeing it today. Well I can’t wait.

Get out your cocoa butter, folks. Here’s 90 seconds of ol’ sol to tide us over.

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