While my kids were here yesterday and we were just hanging out sorting boxes of their old school papers, the sirens went off and I looked online and saw a tornado warning, heading our way. So we stood at the door watching the rain pouring down and the wind. It was blowing hard enough that soon I could see blue sky to the northwest, even though it was still raining here. Then the sun burst out and I said grab your cameras and we headed for the back door. Sure enough, there it was…just for us 😉

Think Creedance Clearwater Revival now, although my imagination seems to be sadly lacking as far as giants doing cartwheels, a statue wearing high heels, look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.

My imagination goes somewhere else entirely, which you’ll see if you click on the image 😀 I have had a visitor to my back door I see though. I see those kitty tracks every time it snows but I never see the poor kitty. Anyone want to come over for a picnic?

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lookin’ Out My Back Door

I was inspired by Barb’s image of wine and bread and decided to break open my Bryce. It seems to be working just fine. I’m glad to see I haven’t completely forgotten how to use it. I’ve been wanting to do a still life for a while. In fact I want to have a still life challenge at 3DCommune, but I keep waiting for them to get their site switched over. Hopefully they won’t have lost all their members by then :p

A memory to get me through the winter 😉

After stressing about it for months (years?) I finally went to get my Indiana drivers license. Only because my Michigan one expires on my birthday August 5th. I was supposed to get it within 60 days. That was two years ago. So I tamped down my agoraphobia and went in and failed the written exam. Gah! Now I have to go back tomorrow and try again. I tried downloading the manual (pdf) beforehand and it stalled out. So I ask them if they had a booklet today and they said they were all out. Now isn’t that helpful?

I don’t have a clue why I must be tested on the complicated rules for getting a learners permit if you are 15 or 16 years old but apparently I need to memorize them. It also might have been extremely helpful to know WHICH questions I missed! That is to remain a secret however. I’m thinking about wearing long sleeves and writing the answers on my arm :p I know I guessed at some of those things about distances but I looked after I got home and I guessed right, so how am I supposed to know where I went wrong? Geez, that’s lame. Like I have any clue when I’m following a car if I’m 200 feet behind it or not.

Plus, some of the questions were stupid, like a semi will go wide to the left when making a tight turn. Huh? doesn’t that depend on which direction it’s turning? There was no “none of the above” choices. I think they should let me write the test for them so it doesn’t leave you wondering what the heck they are talking about. Then there’s the rural vs urban highways and what is the speed limit. But it doesn’t stop there, they can be broken down into other variations to complicate it even more. Why can’t I just LOOK at the speed limit signs to know what speed is allowed? How do I know when I’m on a rural vs urban highway? Nothing says, now entering urban highway. Okay, off to study the pdf if I can get the thing to download.

My garden as of today. I think I found a radish. I don’t remember planting radishes. I pulled it because I thought it was a weed. Maybe it’s a weed that looks like a radish? If I did plant them it’s odd only one came up.

My pretty vines.

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
~Joyce Kilmer, “Trees,” 1914