October 24, 2010
I love the light and colors of storms! Today's storm was more about shading than colors. It began early. In fact, the lightning flashed through my eyelids before my eyes were open. The lightning didn't last long, but it came back later. I didn't see any of the strikes, and they were not terribly close, maybe four miles away at the closest.
I've noticed that the seagulls hunker down and look very flat in the rain.
This time it's not rain, but hail.
Heavy hail.
Hail and rain against the side of the workroom window. I thought I was getting the mother and baby stuffed opossum (top of the bins on the left) in the photo, but they aren't visible. They seemed not to mind the crashing hail or the thunder.
Hail outside the window. This is where the lovely tangle of plants lived until last summer. The neighbors tore them out, then got as far as putting in a few big rocks, but no plants I guess until next spring (I hope).
When the downpour stopped, a familiar pattern of clouds emerged. So often, there's this layer of clouds over the river obscuring the hills of Washington. It takes one form or another, but is usually separate from the clouds above. I thought the arrangement today was striking.
And it rained again. As I type this at 9:37 p.m., I've just seen lightning outside the window. I wonder what's in store for tomorrow? The big winds didn't materialize yesterday. The forecast usually gives a hint, but it's usually not spot on.
Web stuff: I finally decided today that I had too many blogs going on, and while I like the theme of all of them, I concluded to integrate "On the Pavement" with Tapirgal's Daily Image. I had very mixed feelings, like ripping up a piece of artwork, but went for it anyway. I also spent some time putting these plastic floating/swimming fish online in a way that people could order them from the site. It turns out that the page on the gift shop blog featuring these fish was by far the most popular of all my pages, but since I didn't have them online in the store, people had to order them by phone. Here's the new set-up. Let's see if they're as popular as I think they'll be.
2 comments:
I think I'm going to incorporate Stone Creek into Ocala soon. I'm so glad that you told how to import from one blog to another! And actually, I think folks are going to be happy they don't have so many damn blogs to comment on! :-)
Now, this series is wonderful. I enjoy stormy weather, also, especially if I'm ensconced in a warm and dry place. But storms do make good photo opportunities. I like all of these shots, but especially the first one, the seagull, and the hail...
I can almost smell the water...
I don't know why I've been missing these posts on this blog of yours... Probably because I'm just too dang busy getting the reports done and the hard disk woes don't help. I like this series of photos. We need to connect. Going on to read later posts...
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