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Our turn
It was our turn to experience some nasty weather. Fortunately is wasn’t as nasty as the weather and destruction that hit Oklahoma, Texas and other mid-western states.
Tornados are not common in the Appalachian Mountains but they do happen on occasion.
We had been under the threat of severe thunderstorms every day this week. Most of the time they happened around 4:00 pm just as I leave from work.
Yesterday I had to stop at the market before I went home so this storm was a bit later than the others.
As I was driving home, I noticed this ominous looking dark grey cloud hanging down from the other clouds. It was very strange. I almost stopped along the road to take a photo of it as it was just so weird. I’m glad I didn’t.
I’m just a little to the northwest of that green pin in the radar right where the yellow blob is heading
When I turned into the development where I live, it started to rain. Hard. Then I heard something hit my car roof. Just as I got into the garage, hail started coming down. It sounded like gravel hitting the roof of the house.
I quickly ran through the house slamming any open windows shut. Luckily the rain stayed out.
I managed to capture some of the hail and aftereffects with my phone camera.
I would guess nickel and dime-sized hail stones. Maybe a bit larger.
In less than 10 minutes it was all over.
The sun was shining and a rainbow appeared in the distance.
Can you see the hail stones in the grass (and weeds)? They are about the size of a clover leaf.
Mr. Aitch was about 10 miles away from home. He said they had a one minute rain shower.
Crazy weather.
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My view
My view from the breakfast table of a small part of our backyard provides me with a variety of happenings in nature.
Most mornings one or two rabbits who live under our deck nibble on grass. At least one chipmunk scampers across the deck. Various birds such as robins, wrens, woodpeckers and the occasional blue bird peck at the ground and surrounding trees for bugs and worms. No fewer than four squirrels defy gravity with their aerial antics as they jump from branch to branch, tree to tree.
This morning a hummingbird frequented the hummingbird feeder and several squirrels ran helter-skelter across the ground. A large hawk swooped down several times towards the squirrels. Was he successful? I’m not sure but the backyard became a ghost town rather quickly though the hummingbird (circled in the photo below) seemed oblivious to the drama. I could hear other song birds in the trees.
But all the small furry creatures where nowhere to be found.
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Smells of spring
Yesterday I had my car windows opened on my way home from work.
I could smell freshly mowed grass infused with the wild onions that pop up in most everyone’s yard around here.
Some sweet floral scent drifted through the windows as well.
When I got home, the unmistakable aroma of a charcoal grill filled the air.
It rained overnight and will be raining here most of the day. With spring rain comes the smell of worms. I must have dodged hundreds of them while walking from my car to the office. I thought about posting a picture of worms here but it was just too gross. Plus posting from my iPhone is not easy.
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