Sharing some of my photos, vintage images I've discovered, and -- occasionally -- commentary and thoughts from retired life.
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This panorama is a composite of several images.
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Gallery: Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square – Madison, Wisconsin, September 13 and 20, 2008, on the streets around the state capitol building
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Here’s what the radar looks like for us this evening. Red bordered areas are tornado warnings. 
We’ll be watchin’ late this evening, I think. I’ll post an update in the morning.
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Last evening was one of those interesting severe weather evenings.
We knew that storms were approaching and I had just seen that there was a tornado warning for our area, but it looked like the storm cell was going to pass south and east of us.
Then our phones started ringing – all three of them.
We’re subscribed to a severe weather warning service from one of the Arkansas television stations. It calls us when there is a tornado warning for our area. It is a lot more specific than the National Weather Service warnings.
It was time to head for the storm shelter.
We only stayed down there for about ten minutes. We waited until we could tell that the intensity of the thunder and lightning was dropping.
Some areas got hit pretty hard, from what we’ve gathered so far. One of the tornadoes had gone very near the Little Rock airport and they had to shutdown operations for a while. Fortunately, our daughter, who had been in Dallas for a week on business, had been on a plane that landed before the severe weather got to the Little Rock area.
Our forecast for today includes the possibility of severe weather, but it’s much less likely than yesterday.
Here’s a short video from my new phone of some of this morning’s rain.
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Another awesome video from the volcano. (video from ITN)
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In this video of the Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, shock waves can be seen emanating with each explosive pulse of lava, clearly causing displacement of the cloud of smoke, ash, and steam.
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(pronounced [ˈɛɪjaˌfjatlaˌjœːkʏtl̥], 
listen (help·info))
‘No end in sight’ for volcano ash – Alijazeera
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Risk of Katla: Could 2nd Icelandic Volcano Eruption Follow? – Huffington Post
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Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano –Detroit Fee Press
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Volcanic Eruption in Eyjafjallajökull – Flickr set
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Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, September 13, 2009
The mountain on the horizon is said to resemble a man laying on his back with his arms crossed on his chest. Its name is Sleeping Ute Mountain.
While it was pretty dry during our visit to Mesa Verde — there was a fire ban and no campfires allowed — there was a daily threat of rain. We did get rain one day, but it lasted only a short period. Dry conditions are normal here and there is evidence all over the park of numerous fires that have occurred over a long period.
The Knife Edge Trail is a 2 mile round trip walk along the north rim of Mesa Verde National Park. It takes about l 1/2 to 2 hours to walk the trail.
Historically, part of the Knife Edge Trail follows a section of the Knife Edge Road built in 1914 as the main access into the park. Along the trail you may see patches of asphalt that remain from this road. Old-timers still proudly talk about what a feat it was to build, or “hang,” a road on this steep bluff. Users recall it with a bit of dread because of its narrowness, the unexpected rock slides and its slippery ruts.
Gallery: Cliff Palace and More — September 13, 2009, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado, August 24, 2004
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is a national monument noted for its fossils in Teller County, Colorado, United States. It is located in a mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak and holds spectacular remnants of prehistoric life. (Wikipedia)
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Old Colorado City, Colorado Springs, August 22, 2004
There was some sort of festival in progress, including vintage cars, the day that we visited Old Colorado City, along with dark skies and a storm brewing up over by Pikes Peak.
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This is a day at work — a week — that’s hard to rearrange and/or reschedule.
It wasn’t supposed to do this until later in the day… but at 4:30 AM we already had a bit of white stuff.
It looks as though we may get a good bit more.
When the Arctic Oscillation went strongly negative last month,
temperatures in Arkansas dropped to 10 to 20°F below normal.
We are certainly getting a taste of winter this year.
… and road conditions are already deteriorating (blue is snow covered, green is slush).
The Arctic Oscillation has become strongly negative again.
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