A Beautiful Day

Sunny and warm - yes, temps in the 30s are now considered warm here

Get some sun if you can, it's good for you

Look Up

Sky shots from the past few weeks. I think the first two look a bit like the ocean.

I saw a poster of a cloud saying - "Look, some of those people down there are shaped like idiots" 

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A Fork In The Tree

Stormy Weather

We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea,

 and we owe each other a terrible loyalty

~ G.K. Chesterton

 

NATURE NOTES

Butterfly

Back in June I  posted  a photo of one of the art butterflys that live all around Keyport, NJ.

A couple of weeks ago I found another one at the marina.

She's a pretty one

Drama In The Sky

I saw a whale pushing the clouds about ...

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,

From the seas and the streams;

I bear light shade for the leaves when laid

In their noon-day dreams.

From my wings are shaken the dews that waken

The sweet buds every one,

When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,

As she dances about the Sun.

I wield the flail of the lashing hail,

And whiten the green plains under,

And then again I dissolve it in rain,

And laugh as I pass in thunder.

The Cloud by Percy Shelley - you can read the full poem here    

NATURE NOTES

Cookies and Crapola

My new favorite saying. An elderly woman at the grocery introduced me to it when a ridiculous display of coffee started to fall on me as I gingerly tried to pull out a can. I muttered 'fuck this' under my breath and, as she breezed by me on her motorized chair, she laughed and said ' it's always cookies and crapola my dear'.

It's been a busy week. The last of the old office equipment was dragged out of the basement and taken to the recycling yard. After that I took Hope to the park ...

On Wednesday I was out all day in search of wellness. I finally got Medicare coverage and navigated the treacherous waters of supplementary coverage but I can't find a primary care physician. Cookies and Crapola.

On my way to an appointment I saw these lovely young people ...

They thought I was taking pictures to report them for some biking infraction. I told them I took their picture because they were so "fucking free and beautiful". That made them happy and taught them not to assume.

Wednesday evening the moon peeked at me as I went to my first Tai Chi Chih class. More about the class once I feel I know what I'm talking about.

May your weekend be more Cookies than Crapola.

The Force of Nature

It was a windy day this past Saturday with gusts of 60 mph. The clouds were traveling fast.

I took these photos within a time span of less than 10 minutes, starting from the north and turning toward the south.

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And then back again to the north, it was as if it were 2 days happening at once.

The power and sound of the steady wind was extraordinary and the gusts were both amazing and frightening. My shopping cart escaped my grasp and the car door became a weapon as it slammed into me.

I've been thinking of that feeling as I see the destruction caused by the tornadoes in the Mid-West. Those winds were 3 times as powerful as the gusts I experienced.

Huffington Post has an article on how we can help

Trees Sweep the Sky

Contrails are so pretty that it's hard to believe they appear from the exhaust of a jet plane.

I saw a contrails show in the sky earlier this month through the trees in my backyard and was immediately reminded of how hard these dear, strong, selfless trees work to keep the air clean.

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NATURE NOTES

Conflicted

is how the skies seemed this afternoon. it was sunny then gray, light then dark, mostly blue was quickly replaced by layers of troubled clouds.

There is a storm headed this way.