Residents in Aotearoa: Summer storm

Sunday, 1 December 2019

Summer storm

These pictures were taken on November 10, 2019. Jeanne had been watching a storm approach us for the last couple of hours on her computer and it has just arrived. There was some lightning but it wasn't really as fierce a storm as the weather service predicted or as these pictures might make you think. Jeanne hauled in most of her pots of tomatoes and cucumbers in case hail happened. None did.

It went rushing by, swirling, posturing, and looking savage, but not impacting its watchers much at all. Even what lightning I mentioned seemed to be of the cloud to cloud variety and relatively mild. Flashy, but not ferocious. (definitely a good thing)

Still, I think the pictures turned out pretty well. I rather enjoyed running back and forth from the front yard to the deck and snapping these shots. It was a very fast mover and the clouds were constantly changing.

I think the Waitakeres got more rain out of it than we did.

I hope you enjoy these... -djf

Those little tendril-like bits of cloud were swirling all over the place. I wondered if I might see a tornado develop but it never did. -djf

4 comments:

Dianne6 December 2019 at 20:59
Whoa! I love the drama in these stormy sky pictures! Sure looks like it should have been a torrential downpour.
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Kathie Luther7 December 2019 at 08:43
Yes, very dramatic and kind of intimidating. Glad all ok!
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Doug Foster7 December 2019 at 10:07
Yes, indeed.
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My deer blind, a place outside of time and space.

This is a picture of my deer hunting blind. I built in in 1975 and used it until about 2010. I'm publishing this picture and text on November 15 of 2022, the opening day of Michigan's rifle deer hunting season, to remember all the years I spent sitting there and occasionally harvesting a deer. I think that the meat I provided for my family was only a small portion of the benefit I received from hunting in this manner. Of greater value to me was the time I spent alone, watching the forest and its many components interact. I had time to unwind from the stresses of my work, to appreciate our world, and even sometimes to pray. That blind was a refuge to me. It was cozy, and comfortable and I spent much more time filming the activities of not only deer, but bears, racoons, turkeys, squirrels, hawks, and once, even a snowy owl, than I did harvesting deer. May I suggest to all of you that you try to find some time and a place, where you can be alone, and where you can ponder and appreciate your life and your place in the world. It does a body good. -djf