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Rainshafts towards the western parts of the city. Noon thunderstorms, June 10, 2021.
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Took this from the back of the Walmart in Mesquite Nevada a few days ago. Just stood on the top step of my drivers door and shot over the wall and building that would have been in the foreground. I wasn't delivering, just stopped for groceries and fill a prescription. The late afternoon light and clouds made this a no-brainer.
Where have I been, well nothing seriously wrong, just lots of miles and tired by the end of each day. Easy to get into a rut, not so easy to get out of one. Gonna try.
Made a switch from Western Regional to Nation Wide OTR (over the road). I drove OTR the first few years of my trucking career, but switched to Western Regional when my late father's health declined in order to be closer and more easily able to get home. Two reasons for the return to OTR, California laws, three tickets in the past 12 months. Very petty infractions, but costly, and the only tickets in over 9 years. Before California I had only two tickets in over 30 years. Also detention pay in CA is ridiculous, losing at least $200 a month because of CA detention law. The second reason to switch to OTR. I'm so bored running up and down I-5, LA to Oregon and occasionally Washington. Not 100 percent of the time, but about 75 percent, The other 25 percent is other routes in the Western States and two or three OTR trips per year.
OTR has variety and longer trips, less loads per week, means less time getting loaded and unloaded. It's actually less stressful doing two or three longer loads per week than doing four or five and sometimes even more.
I'm excited about changes, and believe they will leave me less tired plus provide a lot more variety in regards to photo opportunities.
In Denver right now, waiting to be unloaded, then picking up a loaded trailer at our drop yard and heading to Missouri.
If you've read this far, I apologize for being so long winded. I'm going to try not to fall so far behind, and get back to visiting regularly. Looking forward to seeing what you've shared since my last visit.
A foggy dawn in the Lower Flinders ranges in South Australia's mid north. (Location data is approximate)
Happy Wonderful Tuesday Clouds!
.. and just like that the clouds parted, and with its last dying light, the sun breathed fire over the icy waters while the seas roared against the rocks in a winter fury.
This was taken about 24 hours after the last post. Same windmill, same fence but a little different point of view, different focal length, and completely different weather conditions. What a difference a day makes. HFF
I am savouring the sights, sounds and smell of the ocean before I return home for a month long “stay at home” order. My postcode is one of 10 subject to lockdown due to increased corona cases. I was fortunate to be able to finish our holiday. I am fortunate to have a government that is willing to make the hard decisions for the greater good.
But it really is hard to go backwards when you have had a taste of freedom, of being able to see friends and family and walk along the beach, take photos, to be able to welcome someone into your home.
The teenagers were smiling again, doing ridiculous things to each others hair (another story), businesses were just getting started again, and friends were able to visit nursing homes once again after months of not seeing parents.
It also feels just that bit harder when it isn’t everybody, when your area is singled out.
But we are safe and will remain as long as people comply and we will hopefully control the spread..
So I am savouring the wind, the sea spray and the lullaby that is the ocean and steals my dreams.
Will catch up with you over the weekend
Timelapse of the scene here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKcXXx8hOxY
The weather hasn't been great here the last few days, so I made the best of it and tried some timelapse photography. It is my first attempt and I was pleased with results. I definitely will be trying more! Thanks for visit and have a good week
I came upon this dramatic scene on my way home recently and had to stop for photos. The black storm clouds seemed to rise to the heavens leaving only a small opening for the sunlight to slice through. I just love stormy weather and the photo opportunities it offers.
.....has a silver lining - or red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet lining in this case!
This early morning rainbow brought us some very welcome rain after our very dry summer. The fields around us are finally turning green again!
From memory, this was a moonlit night which I normally avoided whenever I received an aurora alert, but it made it interesting combined with the clouds and the soft colours of the mild aurora. Thankfully, there were enough gaps in the cloud for some stars to show up. Taken around midnight, facing due south at my favourite dark sky location just north of the Grampians National Park in Victoria and showing the silhouetted outline of the Grampians Range.
This was a stitched panorama taken with my Canon 6D and 40mm pancake lens. Original exposures were around 20 seconds.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
Another start to a perfect day at Mannum on the Murray river in South Australia as the sun just lifted into a sky with just a few wispy clouds. Some welcome swallows were darting about in front of me just off the surface of the lagoon, and above and behind me, the dawn chorus was in full swing with the Corellas and Galahs!
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
Over a short time so many different colours. The air was so cold that as the sun hit the waves the mist was rising and catching the light.
WPA project built 1936.
I wasn't sure if this was a WPA building because it doesn't look like one typically found in the Midwest. Every other WPA building I've come across has a bronze plaque on the outside wall to the right of the main entrance. This one has the plaque just inside the door on the wall of the foyer.
We are just back from a week away. (I'll try to catch up on viewing and commenting) Part of that time was spent in Door County, Wisconsin-one of our favorite places to visit. This had to be the first photo to post since I finally got out early to get a sunrise image over Lake Michigan. (Usually not enough gumption to get up early enough) A big thanks to the hotel clerk for the heads up for this out of the way park to make this shot.
A view towards Hathersage from White Edge Derbyshire. What a wierd bank of cloud hanging over the hils with Hathersage highlighted in the distance.
Thanks to permanent springs in this area, the dam on my friends farm has always been full, at least as long as I can remember.
Unfortunately this is not the case in many parts of Australia at the moment where the drought has taken its toll, particularly in NSW where water levels are so low, all that is left in many dams is boggy ground where Kangaroos get stuck and die a slow an agonising death.
This beautiful property in the Strathbogie Ranges supports a vast array of wildlife with many large and small mammals calling it home. My friend's son sets up a night vision camera and has recorded all sorts of critters, including Phascogales.
The last couple of sunrises have produced fog in the local valleys but this morning there was color in the sky too. Three images combined in Aurora HDR.
Swapped loads with another driver this morning. He needed to go home and the load I had would get him closer to home than the load he was on. Fortunately we would be crossing paths in Moriarty, New Mexico. His load was going to Ogden, Utah, so with the swap I'll deliver the Ogden load tomorrow and then go home and not be back on the road until Tuesday. Pretty lucky for both of us.
This picture was taken in New Mexico about 35 miles from Shiprock, NM. This castle like formation is right off US-491. I've driven by in many times, but always during at time of the day when the light was terrible and or either overcast, or cloudless. Well today was about as good of conditions as I could ask for.
Oh, my hip is better, still sore, but getting better. Thanks for all the kind words about the injury, I appreciate all of you.
After a week of rain the water is rising in Coniston Water the week before the speed boats arrive for Records Week. looking along the western shore below Park Coppice.
The decline has been slow at this abandoned house near Chadwick,IL. Its 100+ year old neighbor was torn down last spring,it remains to be seen how long this nice old farmhouse will survive...
The FFF+ monthly challenge (FOTF) is “Freestyle on the Fifth” with a new theme every month to be posted on the 5th of the month.
This month it was the Pocket Rocket Margaret's turn to choose the theme, and she chose “Clouds”. No seagull Margaret but there were little swallows flying about above the clouds!
This image was taken from the restaurant at Baw Baw Village. You are so high that you sit above the clouds.
I have zoomed in on the cloud bank that fills the valley. They look so solid. I can't imagine a much better feeling than to be wrapped up in their cottony embrace.
Another poem title from the late Jock Scott, I thought it sounded perfect, because this is a tranquil pre sunset shot where the sun disappeared for a while behind the only cloud in the west! It was such a simple yet beautiful moment, that I really like the colours on the wet sand!
Sunset colors after a cold day. Athens, Greece, 07.01.2020.
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