Day 23 Happy - Monday 16th - Strange Skies

[byslantedlight]

I ran! Even after a run-less week, I managed the first of the week seven runs - 25 minutes without stopping. I know it doesn't sound like much to you runners out there, but... it is. *g*

The skies and the air and the atmosphere - such a warm day, back in the 20sC, and a bright pink sun and that feeling that something was about to happen... We were on the end of the storm, of course, and it was very very windy, but the wind was blowing across things that made the world look rather beautiful. If only horrid things hadn't been happening to people caught in the storm itself...

Comments

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Go you! And yes, wasn't there a wonderful feeling of portents and boding of all sorts with those 1960s-film colours in the air ... how readily one might have thought in another age that there could be demons abroad. If only, as you say, the storm hadn't been bringing trouble to so many people further west :-(

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Definitely the smell of demons abroad! When I went outside I thought that if I'd been in Australia I'd've been checking the news for bushfires and how close they were - and of course it turned out that they were far away in Portugal (though sadly all too close to someone on my flist). I actually smelled smoke in the air too, and even now I don't know whether someone was burning off nearby (didn't see any smoke though) or whether even the smell of fire came over on that wind...

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

The picture of the sun is really eerie. Glad to hear the hurricane didn't go that far east. I'd heard about how badly it hit Ireland, which sounds so weird, a hurricane in Ireland. I didn't realize they got them, or is this a new phenomena? The weather is getting so weird, it's hard to know what's normal and what's not.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well we've had hurricanes in England before, so no reason they wouldn't have them in Ireland - I think mostly they've just been called "a bit of bad weather" or "a touch stormy today" in the past, whereas now we have the dramatic satellite images and specific warnings well in advance and so on. And of course if the media sees hurricanes talked about dramatically in one country, they've got to make sure ours are hyped up in the same way, now! ... Okay, I had to go googling, and Wikipedia has a list of serious weather events in the UK and Ireland, including hurricanes and tornadoes. They're not regular occurrences, but they're not rare either!

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the 25-minutes of running without stopping. Go you! (and you did, for 25 minutes. :-)

The sun looks really eerie in that second picture. I'm glad we live in enlightened times so we know why it looked like that.