This week the clouds dumped roughly three thousand inches of water onto us over the course of several days, and I was very grateful for a roof over my head. I spent some time in the basement at work as a menacing cell moved through Downtown. The sun is out today. All around us and especially to the south, there are enormous amounts of carnage and destruction. The death toll was still in double digits…
It’s cliché to say and hyperbolic and patently untrue, but my God, this winter has felt longer and more soul-deadening than any winter ever before, in the history of Earth winters. I swore I wasn’t going to be one of those people already wishing for spring in the middle of December, and I more or less kept to my promise. But I can’t keep quiet anymore. I’m sick of it. Go. Just go. I’m not…
And now begins the portion of the year where I spend a good deal of time 1) hoping a tree or large parts of a tree don’t fall on my house 2) in the basement at work, fidgeting as a siren blasts in my ear and deadline nears 3) pretending that either of those things are anywhere near as terrifying as the prospect of an actual tornado coming across that river and fucking things up.…
Nothing like leaving for work as the entire state hurries home, their cars crashing into each other and smashing into light poles and stopping in the middle of backed-up lanes for seemingly no reason. Nothing like driving home in that re-frozen, completely unsalted mess at midnight, imagining that every car you encounter is going to skid its way toward you and make one hell of an introduction to your bumper. Sure is pretty, though. Spring…
The colder and nastier the winter, the more hope I have for a summer that isn’t defined by the number of mosquito bites on my legs. [Project 365]
Oh, man. It’s weird having so many weather events lately. I feel like I have to make a funny face when I say that: weather events. The snow was so pretty and peaceful coming down today and then I had to leave the house. That’ll make a person real grumpy real fast. Snow days are okay though, because we try to get done with work early and get the heck outta dodge before midnight, when…
Took a walk around the block to see the snow before it all melted and use the lens I’m renting this week. Had fun imagining what goes on in all the houses that sit around mine. Bonus pictures! [Project 365]
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