Sunset Cone Bush, San Carlos, CA, Orange Day #1, September 9, 2020

I took this photo of a Sunset Snow Cone Plant in my backyard after I first went outside on the morning of September 9th, 2020, a day I called “the day of the apocalypse” after looking at the sky, a day which was then called “Orange Day” in the papers. Here is a description of that crazy day that appeared in the New Yorker magazine.

Like many other San Francisco residents on the morning of September 9, 2020, I double-checked the time when I woke up to a blackened bedroom—surely it was still the middle of the night. But the typical California sunshine had failed to make an appearance that day. Amid an unprecedented wildfire season across the state and the Pacific Northwest, almost five hundred thousand acres were ablaze, releasing tremendous amounts of smoke. Some of that smoke converged over the Bay Area on its way to the ocean, mixing with the city’s iconic fog to create a blanket that the sunlight could barely penetrate—only the longer wavelengths of light could get through, bathing the city in a deep orange glow.

The latest New Yorker video documents what San Franciscans look back on as “Orange Day.” Across the city, disconcerted citizens wandered into the streets and visited hilltop vantage points, trying to capture the sky’s effect with their smartphone cameras—some of which proved too smart for the task, by automatically cancelling out the orange color. Locals’ photos and video footage chronicle the city’s familiar sights—the Golden Gate Bridge, Oracle Park, undeterred commuter traffic flowing down the highways—rendered alien and vaguely hostile by the persimmon glow.

From Kelsey Rexroat New Yorker Magazine

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