Foggy night driving

On our way back from Port Townsend the other weekend it was delightfully foggy out. Not so foggy that you can't see the front of the car (I've tried to drive in such conditions, and it's scary) but foggy enough that there were some really cool lighting effects in the stretches where there weren't any other cars. Streetlights, for example, start as a faint glow far in the distance. As you get closer, the blob of light resolves into a conical shape. As you pass through it it is like being on stage under a spotlight - bright underneath but blackness everywhere else. It reminded me of some the surrealism in the old Looney Tunes cartoons. Then a moment later all is black again apart from the stretch of road illuminated by the headlights and the receding/fading cone of light in the rear view mirror.

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