It was foggy up on the land again yesterday.
Shed when fog lifted.
Shed when fog didn’t lift.
Photovoltaic panels in fog.
That is still unusual weather up there.
I love the pictures of the fog, but Andy’s happy the sun is out today — he wants to heat the house up with the solar panels on the roof.
October 19, 2018
wow. that’s some serious fog.
Zeke and I took a walk in fog like that once and we got completely lost. you couldn’t even read the street signs standing right under them. but it made for a good memory. what was to be a short walk took hours and hours.
but with my darling boy I was in good company.
Yes, I remember my folks occasionally having to drive through “pea soup” fog when I was young. I’ve never had to do that, but once I was driving home from Santa Fe at night in whiteout snow. Occasionally I could see the tail lights of a car in front of me, but sometimes nothing. You couldn’t always see where the side of the road was, but it wasn’t really safe just to stop either. I never want to do that again!
I can well imagine it took you and Zeke a long time to get back home!
now that’s “a fog” for sure – especially when the dear little shed, has disappeared – swolled up by aliens!
wonderful hot sun here for a period this morning, to a point when I was out, had to take off an inner layer – later I wanted to take off another layer, but not in a public place…still sunny but not as hot now, early evening…
I love that little shed. My favorite pictures of it were taken that first winter after the fire, when it was up there all alone. It’s one of my symbols for grit.
Good luck with your weather being a bit more predictable!
that certainly is grit – yesterday I was hoping to stop off and photograph some trees, that I would imagine represent grit. The storm back in April caused power outages and havoc in our city – a grove of wonderful trees on the edge of a semi-wilderness part of town were struck – it has been interesting to see that many of the broken ones are still hanging in there, and have sprung some flowers – even if many have their ends in the ground…
I will try to do that very soon…maybe tomorrow.
We get such foggy days sometimes during the winter mornings but more clouds coming down on our mountain roads during our monsoons.
Last night I had gone to a concert and towards the end experienced thunder lightning and showers that lasted till I reached back home.
Fog is fun if you don’t have to drive in it. We used to get thunderstorms almost every day during the rainy season, but not early so often since the drought started.
We’re now in City of Rocks State Park, NM. Driving across from Tuscon, we saw signs in both Arizona and New Mexico warning of the potential for zero visibility due to blowing dust. If it happens, you’re supposed to pull over to the side, turn off the engine, and wait for it to subside enough for improved visibility.
We had a strong headwind, but, with the recent wet weather, there was zero chance of dust storms. We actually saw some large areas of standing water in the desert. Seven years ago, heading home from this area, a big dust storm hit Lubbock, Texas, not long after we passed through. Not much of a chance for that this year, though.
It’s good to have those warnings — we occasionally read of people killed because of accidents due to low/zero visibility. Then there’s a friend of mine who was driving locally and ignored the dust devil in the road. She didn’t slow down and plowed into the back of the road sweeper creating the dust. It took her months and months of painful rehabilitation to recover. Yuck!
From fog to dust storms—I love to hear about the weather from different parts of the country! We’ve had sunny, warm weather for the past three weeks, quite unseasonal, since we usually have pouring rain by now. All in good time, I appreciate the sun, but know we need the rain to maintain our ‘rainforest’ climate.
Yes, good luck on getting precipitation! We’re between extreme and exceptional drought. We love rain.