[Part 2 of 3] A wide-angle, landscape view of this magical sunrise scene, with its serene and gently rippled sky and tree-silhouette reflections in the pond, reveals a moment every bit as comforting and mind-cleansing as one can imagine. It offers a lesson worth learning, and relearning: in times of turmoil, strife and uncertainty, be sure to look to and appreciate blessings offered above. Part … [Read more...]
Fall-20 Sunrise Tree Sequence 1
[Part 1 of 3] 2020 has been an unprecedented and tragic year in many ways, but still, one with blessings for those who can seek and find. Still rotating forward from a set of night shifts, I was awake to notice this gorgeous sunrise unfolding, and knew right where to go at this time of year, while the sky still had great colors. Two years and sixteen days before, another beautiful sunrise … [Read more...]
Sunset Eruption on the Great Plains
One of the most amazing sunsets I (still!) have witnessed wasn't just the astoundingly brilliant display of light and clouds and the northwest, but the rest of the sky too. At a right angle to the left of the supercellular mammatus, the southwestern sky also blazed brightly, on and all around a fast-growing young dryline cumulonimbus that didn't exist visibly just a few minutes before. Thirteen … [Read more...]
Autumnal Altocumulus Translucidus Undulatus
On a fine and cool fall morning, it was a treat to round the corner of Battlestar Norman and see this splendid field of altocumulus translucidus undulatus covering a substantial proportion of the northern and eastern sky. This came nearly a month after a wonderful sunset display of silhouetted undulatus clouds as seen from these grounds, and brought to mind a different but equally beautiful … [Read more...]
High-Based Wall Cloud and Forward-Flank Core
Though high-based, with only weak visible rotation, this supercell had a large updraft, visible from many miles away, and deserved closer scrutiny. A quick jaunt NNW out of Roll provided such an opportunity, albeit short-lived. Focal length here was 50 mm, shooting 35-mm Ektachrome slides; so yes, it was close, but not dangerously so. After dropping back south to get out of the way of both the … [Read more...]
Window Dressing
Consequences of forgetting my usual vehicular tarp in a night-shift freezing-rain event included this one, for which I'm now glad, thanks to the incidentally abstract artistry. All that was necessary was to heat up the interior for a few minutes and roll down the window partly, with no significant frictional resistance, thanks to a thin melting layer that formed on the inside of the ice. Once … [Read more...]
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