Little Wonders
Monday, 10 August 2009
The day was yesterday,
Nothing special about it save the fact that we had especially nasty weather during the day. I had worked in the morning as Esther was home. I had been concerned, looking out the small window in the restaurant utility room I saw the rain begin to harden and thought once or twice of tornado warnings spent in the basement of my home as a child. This is the season for them and the weather was favorable at the time. Tornadoes are not common around this part of Michigan but one occurred last year that I narrowly escaped and I did not think Esther would know to check the television. Luckily nothing but heavy rain and scattered thunder hit and the precipitation actually managed to cool the day considerably. Though humid and a bit muggy, it was very pleasant to walk through the parking lot after work under the cover of towering thunderclouds, back lit by the peaking sun.
Esther and I left early for the movie. We ate pizza at Roma's Pizza and got a deal on a large pizza with bread sticks. We were so full on just the bread that we had to "tapau". Driving to the theater we noticed the wall of the storm passing overhead. We parked in a lot where to the left was the storm stretching on with shades of gray and spots of lightning, and to the right was a yellow and orange sunburst behind the billowy clouds that trailed the storm. We took pictures. The sight was dynamic and constantly changing, this and the scale of the whole scene made impossible to properly capture the picture. Never the less some of them came out quite nice. I like Michigan for these kind of things. Maybe sometimes you can't walk out the door of your house because you may freeze or burn. Sometimes you can't drive because the snow is so tall on the road and other times it's because the rain and wind will push you off the road. I'll take those things because with every terrible thing follow small wondrous ones.
Cam
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