A new experiment

Always looking out for new methods of communication can bear fruit upon occassion.  This time I've entered into the publishing industry, but not the kind of publishing you may think.  The paper I'm publishing is an internet auto aggregation from twitter.  The subject? Weather, what else.  The link to my paper is here: http://paper.li/n1yz/1321760746

It will be fun to see where this takes me next. Enjoy!

WIndy August Day on Grand Traverse Bay, MI

It was just a beautiful day with the wind howling from the West.  We stood on the shore near Elk Rapids and watched white caps blow across the bay and clouds race by.

How Hot Was This Summer?

Weather historian Christopher C. Burt presents a fascinating article on the summer heat records that were broken during the HOT summer of 2011.

For the complete article with a Map and lists go here:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/article.html?entrynum=40

 "I have shaded the region that has just recorded its warmest summer on record. This represents about 15% of the contiguous United States (45 of my 303 stations)." (from Christopher's article).


 

Yellow light over the Black Mountains of North Carolina

I still remember that evening, driving down the Blue Ridge Parkway trying to chase the sunset.  The sun disappeared before we could get to a vantage point to view and photograph so we hung around for a while until this gorgeous light was revealed.  

 

What is that in the sky

This evocative cloud formation appeared two hours before the severe weather moved in. I'll look for this next time :)

The Trees Lost

During the historic tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011 many tens of thousands of trees were bowed and broken. This is just one of the many.

Belief

Belief is not enough to shelter you from ignorance and stupidity, nor shall concupiscence save you from the disingenuous. History is littered with campaigns that crashed and burned upon the truth-that-is-so.

So what is a Mother to do?

Don't preach that "gospill", or pass it along with a cup of water, teach people how to learn, teach people how to research, teach people logic, teach people how they can discern, teach teach teach teach....don't preach.

Another Climate Change Convert

He says it better than I could.... http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/climate-change-convert

The real reason I sat down to write tonight....

Today we celebrated the 16 year ministry of our priest, Margaret Taylor as it was her last time with us prior to retirement. It was a service and a feast and fellowship never to forget. It is easy to live a life and become slightly abraded, even jaded so that profound spiritual experience is an historic memory, distant in the past. Today I was reminded that if you are open to the Spirit, then profound spiritual experience can be experienced in fellowship, in a warm, open, loving, family.

On FaceBook I quipped "An ebullient celebration today...glad the kleenex was handy..." . It was emotional and it was warm, and it was fun, so we laughed and cried. A complete game.

Our parish now looks to the future for new leadership, for the first time. It will be an interesting journey...

The first photo with that camera

I was more than pleasantly surprised by this photo. My first film photo taken in 10 years, taken with that amazing 40mm lens on the Bronica. This file, after being scanned, was only 2.14 mb, which is astonishingly small compared to similiar shots taken with my Nikon D-90.