(gentle music)
Hey everybody, hope you're doing well.
I'm Mark Horner.
It's late September, it's near sunset.
It's been a beautiful day, now a really nice early evening.
And there is a great spot just around the corner.
Let's go take a look.
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What an evening.
What a difference a week makes.
This would have all been filled with smoke just a week ago.
We had wildfire smoke from California and Oregon.
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It was just stagnant smoke.
So unhealthy, the unhealthiest wildfire smoke
air quality that I've experienced
in my lifetime here in Western Washington.
And you couldn't see very far at all.
All of our familiar landmarks were just out of view
because visibility was so poor.
In many cases Western Washington had places where
the air quality was just extremely poor,
and so people stayed indoors.
But it's early evening, late September,
and this looks like a classic
Pacific Northwest afternoon and evening.
(inspiring music)
I got up really early this morning, prior to sunrise,
and grabbed the camera and went to Glacier Peak High School,
which is just above the valley.
So you get this beautiful view when it's clear out
of the Cascade Mountains to the East,
looking over the valley.
And as soon as I arrived there at first light,
prior to sunrise, I could see that there was some fog
packed down there in the valley.
In fact, I took some pictures.
Do you see it there down below?
And if you look carefully just above the fog
in the distance, you could see some of the jagged peaks
of the Cascade Mountains.
But by the time I started a live stream
which I did on Twitter and Periscope,
you couldn't see those mountain tops anymore.
Hi everybody and welcome to Snohomish.
Not three minutes ago, I could see the mountain tops.
I could see the mountain tops three minutes ago,
the jagged peaks of the Cascades.
They were there, I promise you.
The fog had grown.
It kept on rising and it came right up out of the valley.
(gentle music)
And there's something that happens that I observe
from just above the valley at Glacier Peak High School.
And that is, as the fog comes up
on those really foggy mornings
and reaches up and beyond the valley,
it's kind of like a breath if you will, or a wave.
It meets you, and then it recedes.
And it will do this.
And there were moments this morning where yeah,
it came up, fog was around me,
and then it withdrew back down to the valley a bit.
And then I wondered, will we even see the sun
through the thick fog.
Oh, here's our sunrise guys.
Oh my goodness.
This is beautiful.
Let's rock and roll.
(music intensifies)
Look at this.
I'm going to stay wide,
cause I gotta get a shot with my DSLR.
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This has been a most unusual year for all of us.
The challenges of the pandemic, recently smoke,
and everybody asking themselves, "What's next in 2020?"
But then you have moments like this,
you know not far in this case from my front door.
And to see the river, to have these nice cool temperatures,
the breeze, this is a classic Pacific Northwest
early evening in late September.
♪ Hello world wake me up to ♪
♪ Another good, good morning ♪
♪ Time to go ♪
♪ Got that smile upon my face ♪
♪ Cause there's excitement in the chase ♪
♪ This I know. ♪
♪ Yeah I'm going for the ride ♪
♪ And find myself, I am alive and I soar ♪
♪ Still I run towards the wind ♪
♪ And let the challenge draw me in ♪
♪ Cause I want more. ♪
♪ Oh, we are all looking for adventure ♪
♪ We are all looking for adventure ♪
(sound of fish jumping)
(water lapping)
So a bit earlier in this video
I mentioned how the fog forms deep in the valley
over the Snohomish River and then fills the valley
and sometimes spills up and out of the valley.
Well, I also happened to shoot a time lapse this morning
at Glacier Peak High School.
And I think you can actually see that happening
in the time lapse.
(rustling)
Got a little time lapse going.
And I started the time lapse
before I did my first live broadcast this morning.
I did two, because the first live broadcast
on Periscope ended abruptly
because cause I touched something I shouldn't have.
Anyhow, so this is, I think you can even hear it.
(camera shutter)
So I'm going to stick around because even though
the sun's up a bit now, this is such a wide view
that the sun is still really low on the horizon.
And there's been so much fog,
and there was earlier stuff going on
in the sky before the fog got quite so high.
By some other stuff I mean
we could see blue sky and clouds.
So let's see how it all turns out
and look forward to sharing with you.
Feel free to take a look and then leave a comment
about whether you see that happening as well.
Meantime while you're taking a look at that,
I'll hang out here with my friends,
the miniature donkeys, who are coming over to say hello.
Hi there.
(uptempo music)
It's just awesome to see the Fall colors.
Now that we're in late September
going into October. Soon, the snow geese will be here.
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