Did you see the rather super supermoon last night?
Don’t worry if you missed it, because your neighbors had it covered. Gary snapped the tight shot of the supermoon over the 280-101 Spaghetti Bowl, while Rachel snapped the wider shot of the same scene shown below. Super-duper!
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This week, the folks from the Instagram introduced a new app called Hyperlapse that makes it easy to create spiffy time-lapse videos. The kids are all excited about it.
To take Hyperlapse for a test drive, Neighbor Brian went up to Bernal Hill yesterday, and the result is a rather fluid little video of Karl the Fog spilling over Twin Peaks. Wheeee!
It was warm last night, with a full moon, no wind, and not a cloud in the sky. In other words, classic earthquake weather, as Neighbor and Rockstar Matt Nathanson recently taught Bernalwood’s Cub Reporter.
There were no earthquakes last night, thankfully. But Bernal Hill is always a magical place on nights like last night — a warm island of darkness in an ocean of city lights.
So, as is our custom, your Bernalwood editor headed up Bernal Hill last night to take some snapshots, including the ones shown above.
Here are a few more. Enjoy this weather while is lasts, because July will be here soon enough:
UPDATE: Looks like I wasn’t the only one up on the hill last night with a camera. Neighbor Boris had the moonrise covered as well:
PHOTOS: Telstar Logistics and Boris Kostaglatov
Brian Hollinger snapped this stunner on Bernal Hill last night, just as the sun was going down:
@Bernalwood one of those #doublerainbow moments up here.
Rainbow Alert! Rainbow Alert! Rainbow Alert!
The Bernalwood Rainbow Situation Control Facility is tracking a Category Four rainbow event that was captured moments ago by Neighbor Kendall’s 11 year-old daughter.
Initial calculations suggest the rainbow may have touched down in the Financial District. Motorists in the area are advised to drive with caution, as pedestrians may be euphoric and disoriented.
PHOTO: Neighbor Kendall’s daughter
Yesterday at dusk, Bernalwood contributor Joe “Jobius” Thomas captured a terrific time-lapse video of the moon rising behind Mount Diablo, as seen from his Observation Post on the eastern slope of Bernal Hill.
It was an exceptionally large moonrise, in many different ways:
Neighbor Jen lives in Bernal’s La Lengua Autonomous Region, and (unlike us) she is an early riser. She has put her Circadian rhythm to good use by sharing these lovely photos of Bernal Hill taken from her home on Sunday morning, in the wee hours of the new day:
I live at the bottom of Bernal (aka La Lengua), and I get up ridiculously early. It’s pretty nice to see that bright pink light filtering through the curtains.
PHOTOS: Neighbor Jen
Neighbor Markus lives in northeastern Bernal Heights, in the Santana Rancho subdistrict. On Sunday morning, he got up ridiculously early to photograph the sunrise from atop Twin Peaks.
Cleverly, Nature conspired to place the sun directly behind Neighbor Markus’s house — and the rest of Bernal Heights — when he took this photo, which was then shared in the stylish Bernalwood Group on Flickr.
Frankly, Bernal looks pretty fantastic. We also look like we could use a cup of coffee.
PHOTO: Markus Spiering
Wow. Peep this superb photo of the recent full moon as seen from Bernal Hill that “Lee Comma Dennis” shared via the Bernalwood Flickr Pool.
Ridiculously great.
We had some friends over for dinner last night, so I couldn’t sneak up to Bernal Hill to shoot last night’s amazing sunset. But I watched it with a drink in my hand from the back yard — an awe-inspiring explosion of rich pinks and yellows, with rich textures created by a layer of high clouds.
Fortunately, Brian Hollinger was in position to get the shot you see above, while Rachel Balik Instagrammed the one below:
UPDATE: Our friends at @VisualSF shared this bonus photo, with is super-pink and super-textured. Wowzilla:
Wow. Check out this photo Brian Hollinger took yesterday:
Sun setting creates very cool volcano effect with a fog lava flow from Bernal Heights.
Yes!! Super hyper cool.
UPDATE: Brian kindly shared a high-res version of his photo with us, so we can zoom and enhance to bring you this close-up of the Lava Zone:
PHOTO: @brianhollinger
We all know that the sun rises in the east (over Oakland), and sets in the west (over Twin Peaks) — right?
Yes! That’s true! But during this week’s huge full moon, Neighbor David witnessed a trick of the light that looked an awful lot like dawn emerging from the west:
I got this shot while walking my dog yesterday…
The full moon looks like the sun rising in the west over Noe Valley, as seen from the southwest corner of Bernal Hill!
PHOTO: Neighbor David
We don’t want to brag, so we’ll just tell it straight up: Celebrities dig us.
It’s just true. Bernalwood is very popular among the celebrity set, and this week we got a very special celebrity shout-out from everyone’s favorite low-altitude meteorological phenomenon: Karl the Fog.
(Fun Fact I: When he’s not tweeting at us, Karl the Fog even takes Bernalwood’s phone calls!)
Anyhow, Karl wanted us all to see the terrific photos of Bernal Heights (and Karl) posted at the Jellybeansofdoom blog:
One evening we were out and stopped by Bernalwood to walk around the hill and enjoy the sunset. It’s located just north of us here in San Francisco. It was a beautiful evening.
We were slowly headed back to the car when I looked up and saw that Karl (The Fog) was moving in wispy tendrils along the top of Bernal Hill.
(Fun Fact II: The only thing Karl likes more than making a dramatic entrance is making a dramatic entrance when there are paparazzi around to capture it.)
PHOTOS: Jellybeansofdoom
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