Texas Clouds, Served Fresh Daily
Our usually cloudless Texas Summer skies are not quite cloudless today.
A wandering low has brought in some great billowing clouds in from the Texas Gulf for the last several days. We were even hoping for a storm today, since the humidity was high enough temporarily to allow the possibility of rain, and we turned on the weather radar channel on our digital rabbit ears, hooked into to our Digital TV Converter Box that we picked up last year, which feeds into still another remote-control switch box so we can watch broadcast digital television over the air-waves on the same display as we use to peruse the Internet to run our business. While we are waiting for some CPU intensive activity to complete on the computer, we grab the little switch's remote control and watch the radar for any stray precipitation. Because that is the nature of Texas weather - temporary and changeable.
Tomorrow is clear and dry in the forecast, no chance of rain for a while. Texas clouds often remind us of the opening clouds scene in the Simpson's cartoon series, where be clouds part to an angelic chorus accompaniment to reveal the title of the series, or even that X-Files episode "The Rain King" where the two characters, the TV station lady Sheila Fontaine settle into wedded bliss with her new meteorologist husband Holman Hardt, who we find out can control the weather.
Outside the window, in the last closing scene, to the tune of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", an animated rainbow appears, with the background clouds that appear nearly identical to the Simpson's opening credits. Of course we are using our supposedly if somewhat occasional eidetic memory to make the comparison. And both shows originally were Fox series, so we don't know if it is a cross-over from one show to the other, but that is how our minds work when we are writing a blog. Things that have been mulled about for a decade or more suddenly jell (gel?) into lucid clarity that is the hallmark of our writing accomplishment: noticing the obscure connections in life and even fictional portrayals of life as rendered in the pixilated renditions of the modern RGB (Red-Green-Blue) digital display that is modern life.
So here is a picture, only hours-old of this afternoon's tangible display of extended water-vapor tendrils highlighted against a juniper or cedar tree in the foreground:
A wandering low has brought in some great billowing clouds in from the Texas Gulf for the last several days. We were even hoping for a storm today, since the humidity was high enough temporarily to allow the possibility of rain, and we turned on the weather radar channel on our digital rabbit ears, hooked into to our Digital TV Converter Box that we picked up last year, which feeds into still another remote-control switch box so we can watch broadcast digital television over the air-waves on the same display as we use to peruse the Internet to run our business. While we are waiting for some CPU intensive activity to complete on the computer, we grab the little switch's remote control and watch the radar for any stray precipitation. Because that is the nature of Texas weather - temporary and changeable.
Tomorrow is clear and dry in the forecast, no chance of rain for a while. Texas clouds often remind us of the opening clouds scene in the Simpson's cartoon series, where be clouds part to an angelic chorus accompaniment to reveal the title of the series, or even that X-Files episode "The Rain King" where the two characters, the TV station lady Sheila Fontaine settle into wedded bliss with her new meteorologist husband Holman Hardt, who we find out can control the weather.
Outside the window, in the last closing scene, to the tune of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", an animated rainbow appears, with the background clouds that appear nearly identical to the Simpson's opening credits. Of course we are using our supposedly if somewhat occasional eidetic memory to make the comparison. And both shows originally were Fox series, so we don't know if it is a cross-over from one show to the other, but that is how our minds work when we are writing a blog. Things that have been mulled about for a decade or more suddenly jell (gel?) into lucid clarity that is the hallmark of our writing accomplishment: noticing the obscure connections in life and even fictional portrayals of life as rendered in the pixilated renditions of the modern RGB (Red-Green-Blue) digital display that is modern life.
So here is a picture, only hours-old of this afternoon's tangible display of extended water-vapor tendrils highlighted against a juniper or cedar tree in the foreground:
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