1 post tagged “spring-2007”
.Last night, the thunder and heavy rain woke me up in the wee hours and that’s really unusual because when I sleep I’m totally out it. The good thing is that I haven’t had to water our new plantings for the last couple of days. The first day or two, I used so much water that I will probably owe my soul to the Water Department next month!! (frown) I talked with the landscaper and made arrangements for an irrigation sytem to be installed in the next h or so. Life should be easier for me then and I’m sure the plants will be happy to get regular watering. Dick planned to do this a number of years ago, but it seems I am only now getting around to it.
This photo is one I made a couple of weeks ago during a particularly violent thunderstorm. I posted it on my flickr site. It's one of many such storms we have had over the last couple of months. As I said in an earlier blog entry, it always amazes me how Mother Nature often makes a potentially devestating happening be unusally beautiful at the same time.....dark, ominous clouds, high winds that made our willows blow straight out sideways, an eery golden and pink glow. The lighting during each stage......as the storm first approached, as it got worse and worse.....as it was winding down....and all the way into the calm after the storm.....is hard to describe. I lucked out and was able to capture it. It was surreal!
As I think back to that day, I'm reminded that being out in the open with lightning is not a bright thing to do, but having "photo fever," I couldn't help myself.
