Clouds at our feet

Jan. 3, 6:57 a.m.

Sometimes the clouds reach down to us, other mornings they are at our feet. Technically it is fog that nestles in the East County valleys when conditions such as this morning’s are in place. Yet to come is a photo – can’t say when – of the entire valley cloaked in fog except for treetops poking through. That happens four or five times a year.

The sun rises relatively early in San Diego, just before 7 a.m. in January, because we are in the eastern range of the Pacific Standard Time zone. Compare this to West Texas, which is in the western extreme of the Central Standard Time zone, and where it is still dark at 7:30 a.m.