Better watch yourself, Tornado Watch, Horses, Pastures, Bucks County, PA

A Tornado Watch and the Horses in the Pasture.

(Another View from Splinter Cottage)

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The most beautiful light, luminescence really, usually occurs when the weather is about to hit the skids. Last week, was an emergency tornado watch and as I was driving home I saw that light I associate with the weather’s goodbye kiss.

The light in contrast change color temperatures so rapidly that the skylight seems to be a series of stills rather than evenings continuum. When I was considering moving somewhere else, it was these moments, not the picnics, baseball games, and barbecues that I feared never seeing again.

As the wind picks up, everything seems silent & the horses go for cover, it’s wise to look toward the sky and see what’s coming at you before you hear the sound of the freight train.

Pressure changes and the birds look for a place to land quickly.

By the way, this is a replacement for my well loved Ranger 4 x 4, better known as “old paint”, the dependable winter & weather ride for about 12 years. Clearly this is “new paint.” Just the paint, as actually its a 14 years old , but a newly restored Ranger Edge step up. Still engine work to be done so do send work. As nearly the same horsepower as the Cooper Works Mini. Anyway this is the set up shop for the closing image. & the rationale for 4 x 4’s in horse country.

A moment before the real heavy weather hit. Leaves dancing: ran soaking.

Gets real dark and automatically the outdoor lights go on the horses head for, led by the smallest always, the best shelter they could find.

& I the best cover I can find. Big wind then big rain but no twister. Soaked to the bone, the upper liquid crystal on the camera, well, will let it dry out and hope? The most battered, and most used, of my S5’s. mentioned only as getting soaked and chilled doesn’t much matter if the point was photographs and the camera doesn’t work. Horses don’t need all this stuff.

The horses know and those in the sheltered pasture begin moving inside, myself I kept my eyes open because I’ve had tornadoes come up on me in the Midwest and I suspect received the wrong end of one was in hurricane Sandy. That was 17 major trees but we made it. Over EZ and I hanging out beside the cooking fireplace where I assume others had done the same for couple of hundred years.

Trees if nothing else, a majestic horse in open pasture … neither majestic nor safe. A target for lightning.

Now and again , the subject of memorable photographs gets discussed, in general or at least often, they come from being somewhere inconvenient. S.

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PS. Back at it again after three weeks of miserable antibiotics and even more miserable

Lyme. Watch those ticks it’s bad this year. The worst on record.

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