Stormy sunset

After the Kr-boom and panning to the left...

Cloudy interference

There has been some wacky weather this week, leading to some odd clouds. Pardon the occasional interference and non-clear photos. I'm not yet skilled in taking photos while driving but some of the clouds needed to be shown anyway.





There was also a wee bit of rain.

Kr-boom

I missed getting home before this storm hit by a couple of minutes. It completely soaked me, head to toe, running from my car to put the garbage can away that had ended up in the driveway, back to the car to park in the driveway, then to the front door. A matter of seconds. It had calmed down a lot by the time I got to videotape it.



UPDATE: I talked to my next-door-neighbor and apparently if I'd been a little later getting home I wouldn't have gotten home until much later. All the roads into the neighborhood were apparently flooded. Her husband and kids were stranded for a while. Now I don't mind getting bonked in the head with hail quite so much.

Oregonness

Came back from a trip to Oregon last week. Got a few good photos. Still sifting through them.





(Yes, this last one was taken from the plane)

Merry Christmas!

Pictures will have to be added later...

UPDATE: Adding pictures as promised.

No wilds and no woods

But there was some very nice weather. For October.

Really. Very nice weather.

I mean, just look at those wispy clouds.

And that lovely blue sky.

You can almost smell the ocean air.

Ships swinging in the breeze.

Just a nice, warm, just lovely day.

Nuts

I left my adult elephants at home...

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

If you're a Firefly fan, a Joss Whedon fan, a funny, quirky SciFi fan or just someone who likes a laugh, I highly recommend this!

Cute chicks

Meet my new cousins. Cute Overload, eat your heart out. ;)

xkcd today

Some things just beg to be highlighted.

April Fool's Day

I like how Google handles April Fool's Day. They put a ton of time and energy into it for the pure laugh of it, but it's not at anyone's expense. If you haven't Virgled yet, I highly recommend it.

30 Seconds to Funny

Have you seen the 30 Second Bunnies?

Wake up cat

Simon Tofield sure knows his cats.

Greens

Well

I think that about says it, don't you?

Compliments of our friends at Cute Overload. Of course.

Mine

Nd nou cand hah nny.*

* - And you can't have any.

And a Happy New Year!

May this one be better for everyone.

Merry Christmas!

The Perfect Snowflake

I had the smallest and neatest experience Friday. It was snowing (for the third time this month!) and I stuck my head out the door to see if it was sticking (it wasn't). I noticed that there seemed to be a nice variation of snowflake sizes, and they were falling at a nice pace right outside the door. So, I decided to stick my hand out to see if I could catch a snowflake (I didn't have my jacket on). Well, just sticking my hand out didn't quite do it, so I stuck my whole arm out. And caught a couple of snowflakes in my hand right away! And they as quickly melted. But it was chilly, so I brought my arm back inside. And noticed a few snowflakes on my black sleeve. And did a double-take, because one of them seemed to have more substance than the others. I took a closer look and it looked like someone had tossed a cake decoration star at me. It was a perfect star with a perfect circle cut out of the middle. I really didn't believe that it was a snowflake. It looked fake. It had substance. It was too perfect. Snowflakes are just random flops of frozen fluff to the eye. It just had to be fake. But then what the heck was it? So, I carefully scooped it up with my fingernail and put it on my finger to take a closer look. It was almost 2 millimeters across. It was equally thick all the way through. It was compressed. It almost felt like ice, but it wasn't quite that dense. It was definitely snow. It looked like someone had taken a log of stars, cut off a slice and tossed it out the window at me. And then it melted.

I'd never seen an actual shaped snowflake before. It was just amazing. I stood there and gaped for a while after. It was just too cool. So to speak. I wish I could have taken a picture of it. I think I'm going to be looking at snow a little more closely from now on.

Signed truck

I'm just hoping it doesn't mean something Satanic or curseworthy or anything. I just thought it looked cool. And hey, we were in traffic.