Yesterday’s storm was a little creepy. When the back end came into view, there were lots of tendrils hanging down, and they were rotating. There was a tornado warning earlier in the afternoon, and I guess there were two funnel clouds spotted southwest of Bloomington (between Bloomfield and Worthington).
I actually took this on Saturday, but forgot about it, so I’m posting it today.
Mostly it was boring solid grey skies and intermittent rain today, but this afternoon, a single line of interesting clouds rolled past.
The sky was clear blue yesterday morning. In the afternoon, perfect, puffy, little clouds started to appear, marching across the sky like troops in formation. As the day wore on, the clouds got larger and puffier and denser, until there was just the occasional patch of blue showing through. As I left Staples, after (finally!) picking up ink and paper, there were crepuscular rays shining through the chinks in the clouds.
Crepuscular Rays, New Unionville, Monroe County, Indiana
I took this as I was coming back from cat sitting last night. One thing about living here is that, when you’re driving, the view is constantly changing with every hill and curve. This is one of the few relatively flat areas along this particular stretch of road. It’s also about the only section of road with a safe place to pull over, so when I saw how dramatic the sky had become, I hoped that there’d be something interesting to see when I got there.
I happened to pull over in front of a house where roofers were working. They must have thought I’d lost my mind, because when I got out of the car and started taking pictures, they all stopped working to watch me.
[Sun drawing water is what the ancient Greeks called crepuscular rays. Not exactly how evaporation works, but it does make a certain amount of logical sense.]
These are the rest of the photos I took of yesterday’s storm clouds. I say storm, but it was really just wind and rain. It looked much more dramatic than it was. Still, I’m glad that I got my driving out of the way before the wind really picked up. I hate being blown all over the road.
As promised, it started raining last night, and the wind picked up. There was a short break in the rain, and I went out to get some photos.
It warmed up, too–it’s 57F right now–so the ice on the bottoms of my flower pots is finally gone.
It clouded up and even rained a bit this afternoon. It was warm, too. I think it got into the 40s yesterday, and today’s high was supposed to be around 50F. Winter in Indiana is not entirely unlike a roller coaster ride, only with less chance of being hit by someone else’s projectile vomit. Hopefully.
Anyway! My camera is supposed to be delivered tomorrow. I may not sleep tonight, though that may be more to do do with the ludicrous amount of noise coming from upstairs than new toy excitement. Seriously. Galumphing on the treadmill at 3am is all kinds of wrong. So is running the dishwasher at 2am. I don’t think he slept all weekend, which makes me wonder if he has some sort of bi-polar disorder or maybe he’s a speed freak.
There will be art tomorrow, come hell or high water. I finally got my hands on a copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (no thanks to Netflix!), so I intend to be completely useless tonight. No doodling, even, as it is sure to require 100% of my attention.
This was taken yesterday. Those puffy little clouds are sometimes a precursor for precipitation. When I got up this morning, it had sleeted during the night, and the day was grey and foggy and generally disgusting. Last night’s sunset, though, was gorgeous.
red paper boat 