Editor’s Notebook
by Molly Winans
Looking Up M
ore times than I can count in I feel a little dirty when I’m anchored pretty summer night?” the past couple of months, on a sailboat watching a stunning full Last week from our photo boat I have opened my window moon rise over the Bay and I take an in Solomons at the Screwpile Lightat work or stepped out onto the porch iPhone picture. There’s this angel-onhouse Challenge (see page 70), Mark at home and snapped a picture of the the-right and devil-on-the-left shoulder Talbott spotted an interesting line of dramatic sky. None of the photos argument going on in my mind: “Just clouds with rainbow colors in them. He turned out to be particularly interesting, be in nature!” — “Blog it!” That night, thought it was a sundog. I looked it up but the sky sure was. As I write, clouds the devil won. later and decided it was more likely to are building in have been in the the west southlarger category of ##Photo by Cindy Wallach west. I don’t see halos, a circumhoanything on the rizon arc, an optiradar, but the cal phenomenon dark cloud lines caused by refractell me that there tion and reflection may be thunder of ice crystals in in my near future. cirrus clouds (feel Isn’t that just the free to correct me way it feels this by sending a note summer? to molly@spinsheet. This overcom). Of course, as documentation soon as he pointed and social media it out, we snapped posting of every a few pictures of cloud that passes it. At least we alby goes beyond ready had cameras being a societal in hand and didn’t addiction or a battle any demons personal obsesover it. sion; it’s my job. As I left the ##A circumhorizon arc above Solomons. SpinSheet readers office last night, I are sailors. Sailors kept the sky-gazwatch the sky. As ing theme alive by well as creating our print magazine, we I wasn’t the only SpinSheeter posting a Facebook request for dramatic maintain an increasingly popular web documenting the supermoon. Twenty storm cloud photos. Cindy Wallach’s presence at spinsheet.com. When we post sailors reported their moon-viewing ominous cloud shot taken looking a photo or story on our website about locations: Baltimore, Bodkin Creek, northwest from Annapolis Landing weather or astrological phenomena, Fairlee Creek, Rock Hall, Shipton Marina was my favorite (I posted the perhaps a photo of a rainbow, readCreek off the Wye, Annapolis’s Back other reader photos on spinsheet.com/ ers click and comment on it and often Creek, McNasby’s Oyster Company stormy). If you’re out there looking up, send us more photos. Post a photo of a building at the Annapolis Maritime and you happen to have your camera brewing storm, and a SpinSheet reader Museum, Solomons, Deltaville Mariin your hand (I’m not saying I conwill send a photo of a waterspout. It’s a time Museum, Fishing Bay, Norfolk, done this, just sayin’), feel free to share game of ‘I’ll take your storm and up it Dewey Beach, DE, Venice, FL, Casco your top images with SpinSheet. And a notch.’ Bay, ME, Block Island, RI, Fishers remember that weather apps give sailors On Saturday, July 12, I posted a Island, NY, Cape Cod, MA, and Maui, good reference points, but for local conmediocre photo of the supermoon HI. The devil in me was thrilled that ditions, it’s better to keep looking up. and the Rhode River anchorage in so many of our followers, near and far, the foreground with a caption asking were on the water that night; the angel SpinSheet readers to tell us about their shook her finger and said “tsk, tsk … vantage point for this huge moon rise. Why are you sailors online on this
14 August 2014 SpinSheet
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