The Furious Spinner

This is the view from my window—southern exposure. (Some of you have asked to see more of what it looks like where I live.) I was outside when I took the photo, but this is what I see from my computer, although my brain blocks out all the damn telephone wires, etc. At dusk, a storm from Eugene (southwest of here) rolled on up to us. It felt like it was going to be a great juicy storm.


When I talk about the gorge mountains or hills in my posts, these are what I'm speaking of. They're on the other side of the Columbia River, which I can sometimes just see through the vestibule windows, but I can't see it in the photo above. Mario thought this photo was fuzzy, but this is actually what it looked like. Strange colors and light.


This is a west view of the storm. I know I should have cropped out the telephone pole, but I really liked that cloud.


Another southern view.


This is western view, over by the school.


This was such a cool cloud. Below it, light came through a break in the clouds. It reminded me of a chicken's egg cracking open.




Mario came out and joined me for a bit. Then the wind started blowing, and it got warm and muggy. It reminded me so much of Michigan and the great thunderstorms we used to get. But, the storm passed us by. Lots of lightning and a bit of thunder, but it only sprinkled. Storm interruptus.

The photo above is looking west. Below the cool cloud is Hamilton Mountain as well as other mountains whose names always escape me. In the daylight, you could see that part of the mountain ridges had slid away, exposing the cake-like layers of the inside of the mountain, delicious colorful layers: rust, green, silver, brown. Our rented house is between the yellow house you see in the middle of the photo and the church (that's its steeple). My garden is behind that group of evergreens by the yellow house. In fact that spot of white in the evergreens is my white chair by the garden. Mario and I were standing on the lawn of the elementary school when I took this photo. 0 comments

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