Joy Is My Goal: Skywatch Friday Smokin'

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Skywatch Friday Smokin'

You know those sirens that go off to warn of severe weather?

I think the weather has been too hot here lately

26 comments:

Carver said...: That's wild. I've never seen anything quite like that. SkyWatch from my Deck; 3:14 PM
Anonymous said...: Very crafty - good fun.; 3:16 PM
Rune Eide said...: Let's put it like this - that's one way to give notice!; 3:17 PM
Barb said...: I've often wondered what they looked like. I've also often been grateful I don't live too close too one of them!; 3:28 PM
Gemma Wiseman said...: Now they are unique shots! The smoke looks small, but what it symbolises is quite another matter.; 3:29 PM
Rambling Woods said...: That is so clever...
Rambling Woods; 4:27 PM
Dewdrop said...: Love the smokin' tornado siren!!! How awesomely placed that contrail was... all the storm chasers should be flocking there! Great shots, Marcia!; 5:06 PM
kjpweb said...: How cool is that? All a matter of perspective, ain't it?
Great SWF!
Cheers, Klaus; 5:12 PM
Anonymous said...: This is the first time I saw something like that! Great shot!

Hope you can hop by my SWF photos in these blogs:
Jenn Was Here
Shutter Happenings

Thanks! Happy Friday!; 6:11 PM
SandyCarlson said...: These are great, Marcia. New to me, too. Thanks for learning me something!; 10:16 PM
marcia@joyismygoal said...: It really is a contrail as some have guessed:); 10:30 PM
MYM said...: really? wow...that's a very cool shot! :); 12:31 AM
Anonymous said...: Great shot! Happy friday to you.; 1:38 AM
EG CameraGirl said...: Fun shot and good capture. ;-); 6:49 AM
Anonymous said...: I love your photos, very nice, enjoy looking at them..; 7:35 AM
Anonymous said...: Pretty shots and what is that? Happy SWF!; 8:07 AM
Angie said...: Great shots!; 8:35 AM
Mary said...: Wow, not sure I could live in Tornado land... great shot, though! Happy Skwatch Friday. :); 11:15 AM
Anonymous said...: WOW! Excellent capture!; 11:16 AM
Unknown said...: Hey, neato shot!

while i'm here...i have a gift. it's here: Perfect Blend of Friendship; 12:15 PM
Unknown said...: Hey, neato shot!

while i'm here...i have a gift. it's here: Perfect Blend of Friendship; 12:15 PM
Anonymous said...: What a nice shots! Mine is up as well. Hope to see you there! Have a great weekend!

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Marie said...: Great sky watch :); 5:01 PM
david mcmahon said...: That is so clever!; 7:01 PM
Anonymous said...: thats great! so awesome..thanks for the visit..; 9:19 PM
Max-e said...: is that a con trail?

Also known as Sam from PE Daily Photo; 12:16 PM

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White

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"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian

Poem: “Welcome to Holland” by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this…
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”.
“Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy”
But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place.
So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”.
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss.
But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.

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Skywatch Friday Smokin'

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