weather – red paper boat

Cloudy

July 17, 2023 Shelly

Air quality is much better today. Yesterday it was hard to breathe. But now we have storms to the north and incoming from the southwest, and the sky is a blanket of grey.

Today’s genealogy rant: Someone on Reddit posted that they looked at the FamilySearch tree, and they’re descended from nobility. They listed out 30 generations and wanted someone else to verify all of them. Bless their heart. That is a doctoral dissertation worth of research, and no one (NO ONE!) wants to do random homework assignments from the internet.

Photography

Rainbow with Spokes

July 3, 2023 Shelly

After all the storm drama last night, there was a rainbow! You can see faint spokes toward the top section.

My Garden, Photography

It Bloomed

July 2, 2023 Shelly

The big, yellow daylily bud opened today. I went out to look at the sky, but got distracted by the flowers. And then I dropped my phone on the patio and cracked the protective cover over the lenses. Better than breaking the phone, though!

My Garden, Photography

Raindrops on Daylilies

June 29, 2023 Shelly

We had one hell of a storm. It blew through fast and furious, knocking out electricity and internet service all over town. It hit just as I was leaving work. I stayed late so I’d miss the worst of it. Even so, traffic was a mess going home, because traffic lights were out everywhere.

But look how pretty the daylilies are, all bedazzled with raindrops!

Crankypantsing

Hazy

June 28, 2023 Shelly

Air quality was 270 when I took this. I know it’s worse north and east of me, but it’s disgusting outside.

My Garden, Pets, Photography

Icy Death from Above

November 15, 2018November 21, 2018 Shelly

I did not plant columbine. I don’t know where this one came from, because it’s in a bed on the opposite side of the patio from where the established columbine is. That columbine didn’t come up at all this year, but this one popped up in October. I love columbine, so I’m not complaining. I just hope it had enough time to get well established before it freezes completely.

It was finally cold enough to put on Thomas’ coat.

Art, Doodles, Photography

Hark! A Doodle!

September 9, 2018September 20, 2018 Shelly

I watched too much TV this weekend, but at least I did some doodling while sitting on my ass.

Also? Gordon came for a visit. The lower lip of that cart is knee-high on me. All that rain fell over the course of about 24 hours.

Photography

Rain!

August 15, 2018August 16, 2018 Shelly

It actually rained! Never mind that there was almost a tornado, too. WE GOT RAIN!

Photography

The Sky Last Night

July 17, 2018 Shelly

I had been trying to get a photo of the rain in the distance (top), but then it started pouring right on top of me, so I took my big camera inside. I came back out in the rain with my phone, but the photo I wanted to get was gone. This was nice, though (bottom)! It had been pouring rain in the distance, but then it cleared up and there was a weird light from the setting sun filtering down from above the clouds in the east.