grey

there will be broken trees in the morning

fog

fog

How sweet it would be, if we were Sequoia trees.
2000-3000 years in a grove together.
That would be enough.

fog

changeless change

last dance on these bricks

heating up in Virginia

morning sun supplies heat of fusion, frost changes state to water vapor, Obama does victory dance in the Old Dominion...

Quaker Neck

Visiting on the Eastern Shore, a land filled with spirits, so much to take in.
Driving out Quaker Neck, what is up with these clouds?

pleochroic

Shannon Hill, Virginia, 1438hrs, 7/16/07

midtones

the sign says "gum tree farm."

subtropical

six inches of rain so far. Flash flood warnings in effect.

rain

navel gazing

Vast relief.
Bloodwork back. Will be doing this intermittently for years.
No indication of metastatic cancer.
Snowed in the village this morning.
Reborn.
At least for awhile.
Vast happiness.

weather

Momentarily touched by happiness. The happiness a fragment of childhood memory and awe.

disappeared

I started drinking coffee/chicory products back in the seventies during my NOLA dishwasher stint. There are several companies that combine coffee and chicory. I settled on Luzianne.
Luzianne has disappeared from the shelves in Virginia, fallout from Hurricane Katrina. Called corporate headquarters last week. They are working hard to rectify the interruption, get the beverage back in the pipeline.

how long?

These children are from Florida but they bring the NOLA youngsters to mind. How long are evacuated families going to be away from home? The airport is supposed to be reopen soon, the port of New Orleans as well. There is talk of the French Quarter being open for Mardi Gras.
What about the people?

where are they now?

I made the picture but lost the names. Failure to memorize, failure to annotate.
This photo dates from 1977, taken outside the Superdome
Where are these guys? Are they still musicians?
Did they survive the water, the wind, the twenty-eight intervening years?

wayne newton

mardi gras 1977

People say the New Orleans tragedy springs from multiple roots- inept leaders, racism, CO2, loss of wetlands, lack of common sense, poverty, developers, the oil industry, civil engineers, and God's punishment for sexual licentiousness.

Tragedy has many progenitors.

weatherman poetry

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
452 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

.UPDATE...TO ADD TORNADO WATCH #752.

.DISCUSSION...
SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA SEEMS POISED FOR A DATE WITH DESTINY AS CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO KEEP A BEAD ON BARATARIA BAY AND THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA. THE GFS MODEL CONTINUES TO BE SUPERIOR IN ITS HANDLING OF THE SYSTEM INASMUCH AS TO BASE THE CONVENTIONAL FORECAST PARAMETERS WITH GOOD INTEGRITY AND IN AGREEMENT WITH NHC ADVISORIES.

NEEDLESS TO SAY...THE WORST CAN BE ANTICIPATED AND URGENCY IS BEING STRESSED IN ALL PRODUCTS AS A WORST CASE HURRICANE SCENARIO FOR THIS VERY FRAGILE AND VULNERABLE STRETCH OF U.S. COASTLINE. THE EYE IS EMERGING ON THE KLIX LONG RANGE LOOP AND BANDS ARE EXTENDING TO LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AT THIS TIME. THINGS WILL BE DETIORATING STEADILY FROM THIS POINT FORWARD FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

WILL MAINTAIN ALL WARNINGS AS ALREADY POSTED AS WELL AS THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH. STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ADVISED THAT THE FIRST TORNADO WATCH OF THE EVENT WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED FOR THE REGION EARLY THIS EVENING...PROBABLY RIGHT AFTER SUNSET.

MOST ATTENTION WITH THIS PACKAGE WAS DAY 1-2 WITH LITTLE IF ANY CHANGES MADE BEYOND DAY 3. GOOD LUCK AND GODSPEED TO ALL IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

storms of life

Listening to the "Storms of Life". released by Randy Travis in 1986, good then, good now.

cumulonimbus

MCV MVG THRU CWFA ATTM. HEATING SUFFICIENT FOR TSRA TO DVLP IN NRN SHEN VLY. TOT HE E...INSOLATION HAS BEEN MUCH BTTR...BUT DEEP MSTR LESS. STILL...THINK FORCING/INSTBLTY SUFFICIENT TO MAINTAIN PCPN ACRS CWFA...IN A SCT-BKN LINE. POPS HV BEEN RAISED IN LINE W/ RADAR TRENDS.

Wish I understood weather-speak (typed by NWS employees on keyboards that only produce capital letters).

Fireworks and fireworks

The fireworks moved this year, positioned behind Dominion Virginia Power's transmission line from my vantage point, I didn't mind.



Yesterday, Nature didn't wait until after dark for the fireworks. Thunderstorm in the afternoon, bent trees sideways and those that wouldn't bend broke in two. Was it a tornado? I haven't heard.



More fireworks as the primary, high-voltage lines in Charlottesville came tumbling down, shorted out, 19,000 volts to ground, 34,000 volts between phases. In the Woolen Mills Neighborhood, Franklin Street was closed! We've been praying for this street to close, 1,800+ vehicle trips per day. Quiet now, it is like a residential neighborhood!



Rained cats and dogs and transformers over near UVA.



Made a mess of the UVA lawn.



In my neighborhood people got together and talked, that wonderful coming together that accompanies stressful times.



Near UVA folks came together in a different style.



On Rose Hill Drive families moved out to their front porches, a time to be together.



The icons were unscathed



A North Carolina line crew worked all night, subcontractors for Dominion Virginia Power.



Wednesday morning, the work proceeds.



I lost the top of a silver maple and one leaf from my Kentucky Coffee Bean tree.

Fireworks and fireworks.