Admittedly not my best photography – these are cellphone photos (I sent my camera with Daughter Trinidad to Hawaii – she’s currently on a trip there with her high school marching band) – but I thought I would share the difference here between yesterday afternoon and pre-dawn today.
This morning – by daybreak there was 4 inches of snow on the ground
Poor Trin – she’s been wishing for snow for weeks!
This 
Is going to become this
Tonight – central Oklahoma, where I live, is under a winter storm warning. For days we have been urged to prepare for ice followed by snow and to expect to be stuck for 2-3 days.
To dramatize:
You can see that lower level winds were northerly while upper level winds were westerly – and whatever direction the winds were blowing they reminded me of those famous lyrics “O!!!klahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains! “
I live way out in the country and the store closest to my home is the Corner Market. My husband and I decided to brave the icy roads last night to get popsicles for our son, Zack, who had been sick all day. Unfortunately, the Corner Market had closed early and even though we didn’t get popsicles, we did get a good laugh when we saw an unlikely duo feasting on food left out for the kitties who live at the Corner Market. I had only my cellphone with me so the photo quality isn’t so great, but I thought it was worth sharing B-)
It’s not officially winter yet, but winter obviously pays no mind to the calendar. It’s supposed to warm up enough today to melt the ice – but the weather report says to expect 2-3 inches of snow tomorrow. Awesome!
I don’t know what it is, but it’s scary-cool B-)
Four months after a devastating tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, Oklahoma, the recovery process continues.
Satellite images show the scale of the damage caused by the massive EF5 tornado that was on the ground for nearly 40 minutes and traveled a distance of 17 miles. EF5 is the highest rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale. At its widest, the May 20th tornado was 1.3 miles across.
Shannan Rhodes, a bricklayer who owns a mason company with his father, has worked in the aftermath of both the May 3, 1999 Moore tornado and the May 20, 2013 tornado.
Rhodes has over 25 years experience in the construction industry, and he estimates that recovery from the May 20th tornado in Moore will take another year and a half or two years. He points out that cleanup is still ongoing, and there is much that still needs to be done.
Rhodes observes, “All the cameras are turned off now, four months later and it’s something we should all not forget. We should not forget those people, and help them any way we can because they’re still needing help, even four months later.”
This is a video I did for one of my classes:
Mr T and I go ‘way back’ – usually I encounter him crossing my driveway, but on one recent morning I sighted him crossing the road by my house just as I returned from town.
My first encounter with Mr. T can be found here.
For the Weekly Photo Challenge: One Shot Two Ways:
Oklahoma City skyline from the Boathouse District on the Oklahoma River in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Alternate view of Oklahoma City skyline seen from the Boathouse District during the 2013 Sprint Nationals and Paracanoe Nationals
I took these photos while on a photo shoot for an assignment from one of my classes.
At the country store near where I live, there is a lovely colony of kitties.
Although these kitties are feral, and they will never be lap kitties, they really are beautiful, and they afforded me the time recently to photograph them.
A frequent cause of traffic jams where I live. 🙂
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge : Masterpiece
The images I share on this blog are generally unedited snapshots of my life. This image was born of a set of photos I took of fledgling birds at Blazers Ice Centre in Oklahoma City.
The original image was blurry & a horrible, dull and dim greenish-brownish color, but I thought it might be interesting to play around and see what I could turn it into.
Although it’s not a masterpiece by any ordinary standard, I am quite pleased with it… it is my own masterpiece 🙂
You know you live in the country when…
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. ~Adolphe Monod
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