"Stormy Weather....."
Can't you just hear it in your head?
I love that song....even though it was *before* my time....
I used to play it on the piano...
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We have had our share in the last couple of late afternoons/nights...
"Pop-Up" storms, the weather-man calls them...
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"Too little, too late", I call them...but I shouldn't complain...
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Last night, I went out to pick okra, and the sky was getting really dark and strange-looking back in the north...
I called Jonathan to come look at it with me...
The clouds were moving fast...
(Enough to engage a teenager for more than a few minutes...pretty impressive...)
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He got his phone and came out to take pictures with me...
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The wind was blowing really hard...in the past, I probably would have run for cover, but, since there was no obvious imminent danger, (and Jonathan was thinking it was pretty cool...though he was saying, "Auntie Em, Auntie Em!!")...I thought, "What the heck"....it was blowing so hard, though, that Jonathan had to brace my arm so I could continue to snap pictures...
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(I now understand those straight-line winds that they show during hurricanes just a little better, and I realize that this was really nothing, in comparison...) ~
Then the rains began...
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"Where have you been, Rain??...Don't you realize you have waited too long?"
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Well.
You take what you get, I guess.
Then, after the rain...
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The most amazing rainbow....(double, at the ends) that I have ever seen...
Probably because the sky was still so dark in the background,
but this rainbow was the most intensely colored one that I have ever seen, I believe...
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The pictures don't do it justice at all...
It was amazing...
So much so, that I, having seen that the sun had come out and had gone out in search of a rainbow,
came back in the front door to tell Jonathan to come look...
Just as he was coming back in the back door to tell me to come look...
Pretty awesome!!
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If the rain stops (and it is supposed to, with a little cooler weather coming in), I will be painting faces in Kennett, Missouri, Saturday and Sunday...
...at Kennett "Fall Into Arts"
Here are a few faces from past events...Grandson Nick (ever tolerant, he won't tell me he'd rather not be a model...:) ~ a Steampunk Airship Pilot...
I always get my share of pretty little girls who like being cats...
And thank you to Lindsey, (the flower girl), always such a great model!
Lastly, this is what you do when it's too hot for anyone to want their face painted...;^)
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
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