HEAD IN THE CLOUDS (Skywatch Friday) 10/09/2009
Autumn weather is as changeable as a teenager's moods. On Sunday night a heavy bank of clouds rolled in just as the Harvest Moon began to peek over the eastern horizon. The low pressure system parked over our heads and remained in place for two days, bringing two inches of much-needed rain.
Wednesday dawned fresh and golden. By early afternoon warmer air had caused unusual cloud formations to build up. Altoculumulus undulatus clouds are named for their resemblance to rippling wave trains along 1 Comment PULL OVER, MA'AM (Skywatch Friday) 09/18/2009
Thankfully, those words—"Pull over, ma'am"—are not the reason I find myself on the shoulder of Interstate 35W at 7:00a.m. Nor is my action the result of car trouble. A different voice has caused me to stop the car on this Sunday morning-quiet stretch of highway. I have heard the call of beautiful scenery.
I resisted as long as I could. I’ve been driving through a pervasive layer of ghostly ground fog, which hovers like thin smoke over farm | INTELLIGENCE WITH
THE EARTH by Christine Petersen "Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?"
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Christine Petersen is a professional writer, naturalist, and environmental educator who works from her home in Minnesota—when she's not too distracted by the view out the window.
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