Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Winter finally arrived - Friday 10/14


But first let's back up a bit to take in a few nice things since the last post (July 30)
It's been a couple of pretty dull months skies-wise. Even the NWS forecast calls it a broken record.


A few troughs of varying high and low pressure have moved thru from time to time, but they don't break the almost constant monotony of a clear blue sky from horizon to horizon much.
A few weak systems have blown thru, and serving up a bit of nice cirrus. I've been naming them sometimes, w/ adverbs or adjectives ... like 'dancing'... frothy...


This is dancing


I'm not sure what the rest are called


How 'bout a few mo' from another day?









Here's the take from weekend when winter finally rolled in, on again and off again rain. The first wave friday was the worst for sure.

10/14
I was glad i decided to take friday off from work. In the early AM it rained like a mad *MF*, and windy too. Really windy. I could look out my apt window to see an old oak tree half block away being twisted turned & wrenched down to it's roots. It all lasted for a few hours, and then some calm.
My commute, if i had done it, would have been hellacious. At 8:25 a produce truck overturned just north of me, stopped traffic on the freeway for 2 full hours. I always have at least one if not two magazines in my travel-bag... but really, these would be gone long before the traffic snarl was.

10/15
9 AM? some breaks in the clouds, by noon, all grey, moving very fast, but no rain. 
4 PM  more grey, no rain.
Bummer - i look ( or maybe i should say 'listen'?) for the soft, sizzling sound of traffic below me.

6:15
I can see out my northern facing window out of the corner of my eye. Being a longtime photographer, i can see the color of the light in a heart beat, and now the light on everything to the north is a  red-orange warmth. I walk to the top level breezeway in just my undies and T-shirt to take in... ( uh - i wasn't the only one!)



Very nice. I am happy to 'be here, now'.

10/16 sunday
No rain to speak of in my neck o' the woods, but plenty of frothy aerial displays.


I am sure the aerial cinema display will continue - I'll be back, for sure.
Mother nature always puts on a great slow motion cinema display :-)