Always early spring; just enough green to look vibrant and few enough leaves to peak through. I find myself flying around locations that are familiar from the ground or lingering on my list of destinations.
Clearly (and clear) there is a peculiar still in the weather on the simplest accessible resources of aerial views. The imagery projects an impression that is informative and yet misleading. The instant view will forever be mid-afternoon in late April. Is it too much to ask for the current weather view, not to mention the cast of night? In tandem with the weather report and the set of the sun, I long for the places that in this vantage are frozen and unobtainable. Arguing consistently now for years that the weather can not be untangled from a site, such tools place the viewer in the position of the atmosphere yet incapable of considering that standpoint.
Google Earth has upped its capabilities with the cloud layer and the satelite updates. Dig enough and you’ll get somewhere. Hardly dig and you’ll get spring.
