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Subject: Re: [OM] Images: Stormy Weather
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:49:14 -0400
I couldn't describe it myself but I think I imagined something at least 
as beautiful as you described.  A great shot even though verbal.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt


Bob Whitmire wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2010, at 12:15 AM, Moose wrote:
> 
>>  On 8/12/2010 7:13 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>>> Nice shots. We've got a sky full of those this morning. I had a  
>>> religious experience with clouds yesterday afternoon,
>> Ooooooh! How nice.
>>
>>> and, as with so many such, no camera to hand.<g>
>> It would only capture the clouds, not the experience.
>>
>>> But that's a story for another day. Besides, I'm not sure I could  
>>> put it into words.
>> The common problem with those experiences. Still, if you try, I'd be  
>> interested. Hmmm, I have a book you might enjoy ...
> 
> 
> Late afternoon, Nobleboro Athletic Field, just off Route 1 north of  
> Damariscotta. I was facing east. The clouds were moving out of the  
> west toward the east, thus coming in from behind me and seeming to  
> vector (?) on infinity out in front of me. The ground slopes away from  
> my location to the end of a pond, which, in any other state, would be  
> a lake. Cool breeze off the water, but that's beside the point.
> 
> The occasion was bocce. The agency I work for, which provides support  
> services to the mentally handicapped, sports a Special Olympics team,  
> and the team practices twice a week year round. Sometimes it's  
> walking, sometimes it's running, sometimes it's skiing and  
> snowshoeing. In high summer, it's bocce (a Special Olympics sport).
> 
> Roughly 25-30 people present, about two-thirds clients of the agency,  
> one third support staff and SO volunteers. I'm suffering mild  
> tendonitis in my right hip, so I wasn't playing, but rather was  
> ensconced in a lawn chair facing the courts. The particular cloud in  
> question was at my one o'clock. Shaped like a hamburger bun edge-on,  
> with burger tucked in, one bite taken out of the middle. Mostly  
> varying shades of white, with some dark gray here and there. I think  
> the dark gray was actually at a different altitude.
> 
> Lots of texture, changing slowly as the cloud moved away from me. The  
> religious experience came as I considered the light at the point of  
> the large bite. I don't believe I've ever seen such a brilliant white-- 
> pure, for sure, but without being blown out. Radiant, but I was able  
> to stare right into it without my eyes hurting, or trying to dodge  
> away. By all the gods that were or ever may be--and I am a confirmed,  
> rock-solid agnostic in the classic sense--I swear someone had left the  
> gate open, perhaps unattended, and I was staring directly into  
> Paradise. It mesmerized me. I couldn't look away. As the sun dropped  
> lower behind me, the light began to change, the white to take on  
> warmer, more subtle hues, but still more radiant that English has the  
> capacity to describe.
> 
> I watched until finally whomever was in charge of the gate recovered  
> sufficient wits to drop the curtain, and in a blink it was just  
> another lovely cloud drifting magesticsally toward the horizon, slowly  
> evaporating into the atmosphere.
> 
> AND NOT ANOTHER LIVING SOUL AMONG US HAD NOTICED!
> 
> No one. Nothing. I kept trying to call attention to what was going on  
> overhead, but nothing came out and no one else noticed. They just kept  
> playing bocce like there was nothing above us but blue sky unto  
> eternity.
> 
> I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Not sure if I'd had a  
> camera I would have been able to lift it and click the shutter. Not  
> sure any film or any sensor could have rendered that radiance  
> faithfully.
> 
> Makes me think sometimes you're not supposed to try to take the  
> picture. It's enough that you notice.
> 
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com
> 
> 
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