Smells like Rain

Wall

May 1, 2010: To be honest, it wasn't the blackness that drew me out into the parking lot of New Life Church (Conway, AR) but the brightness of the clouds behind the storm. I looked out my home window and saw bold white boiling cauldron clouds high above the grey. (you can see something of the larger series on the Mighty Works Facebook Page. So I rushed to a nearby clearing to record more. Then the tornado sirens went off (on) Then they went off (off). I looked around, didn't see anything so kept taking pictures. When the second set of sirens went off some ten minutes later I figured it was time to go home. No touch down in Conway, but many reported seeing a whirling funnel over our downtown - Home of the weekend Toad Suck Daze Festival. (Looks like they lost money again this year?) This same system did generate damaging tornados elsewhere and plenty of flooding rain in Tennessee.

Next to the last rose

Not sure if this really is the next to the last rose, but I sure am surprised to see any in mid November. (This one at home appears to be the last, but they still have quite a few in the garden at work.)

The Coming Storm

Sunday Night Storm, 6/15/08

From the parking lot field of New Life Christian Church, Conway, AR

and yes, it was scary-fun.

Chariots of Water

He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He walks upon the wings of the wind.

(Psalm 104: 2-4)


All pics, May 13, 2008 from the commute into work approaching Little Rock, Arkansas.

In a perfect world these clouds would have happened behind a beautiful Arkansas bluff. (They probably did, but I wasn't there.) So I pulled my car to the side of the Interstate and took these from a mound in an cloverleaf loop (I-430 /Maumelle) and tired to cut out the clutter.

For the purists among you, most of these are enhanced. The cloud play is very real, but I have darkened and dodged for effect.

This particular storm did not produce any tornadoes, but this season has certainly eclipsed any I remember for tornado activity.

For more on the Purple Vetch in frame 6, see:

http://idarkansas.blogspot.com/2008/05/purple-vetch.htm

Bonus Rose

Water World 7/16/07

Palace of Pour (c) by Kirk Jordan

Pic 1: June 2006
Pics 2-5: July 2007

All Pics, central Arkansas.


While by no means at the same levels that have saturated parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, we have seen our share of shake and bluster in the last weeks.

As is, my job often takes me to the air, and until last week, we could see a clear line of demarcation as the western- most part of Arkansas (Rogers, Springdale, Fort Smith ) was awash in wide rivers and Kelly green, even as our eastern Mississippi River side went tawny. Turns out our neighbors to the west were getting hammered by a North-bound gully wash straight out of the Gulf, even as our neighbors to the east (Tennessee and Alabama) knew drought. But now it seems that the old wind patterns are picking up, which should mean wetter winds headed east and south.



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From the original e-mail

A Cursory Guide to the Kingdom Arts, #4 - Saint Patrick

“Thank you” to the many who responded favorably to the last edition, as we looked at the poetry of Ruth Bell-Graham (1920-2007). This week we jump back roughly 1600 years to a prayerful poem attributed to the missionary “Saint” Patrick, a firebrand in the quiver of God.

for remainder see: http://startledbyexistence.squarespace.com/kingdom-arts-profiles/2008/2/26/saint-patrick-400s.html