Heads Up
These bloggers are incorruptible, so I’m going to face their preoocupations head on and give them something to chat up. I’m happy #Hobbyblogging!
First the Fog
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
Elisabeth Elliot
Searching through my archives sent me back to December 11, 2012 a few minutes after 8:00 am to find these extreme foggy day photos. Sometimes you have to pull off the road and enjoy the scenery. In this case there wasn’t any, so I enjoyed that, too.
All of these photos fit into Terri’s Sunday Stills theme and they are all squared up, so Becky B will have to bat her eyes to try to clear them up. Warning: There is nothing wrong with your eye sight.
I think this shot also applies to Cee’s CBWC – Vanishing Point, too except that you have to imagine that the point vanishes somewhere out there in the wild gray yonder. I can sort of see it. Can you?
All the rest of the foggy day pictures are from the same day. I liked these pictures because in the fog the cultivated field looked like a very choppy sea or river to me. I walked on the “water” to get a better picture. It crunched beneath my feet. If only someone had been with me to capture the moment. What a loss!
As the sun started to break through the fog, you could begin to see the peaks of the Sierra Nevada. There’s Sawtooth!
Of course you see it, don’t you?
It wasn’t long, as I waited, and the sun came out a little more leaving streaks of fog like layers of sandstone. The ground lost it’s choppy water look. Nobody would have believed me anyway.
You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted.
J.R. Ward
Now the Clouds
“Ever changing clouds paint portraits on the sky, and each person sees a different image.”
Rhonda Savage Thompson
In the mile-high city of Prescott, AZ, we live in the clouds rather than under them. They are not painting a picture today as they do in other seasons. They are full of snow. Especially today. The Weather Bureau calls it a “Winter Weather Alert!” I call it a blizzard. Listen to the euphonious video Vince just took of the wind. Imagine flying in these clouds!
Just two of us In the blizzard Blanketed with cold Giant clumps of snow blown off hairy pine limbs Drop in the path of no return. Stay inside! Marsha Ingrao
I chose this picture for CBWC. Again the vanishing point is imaginary. The horizontal one cut off by the building, and the vertical one cut off by the square up. The sidewalk that was cleared three hours ago now is covered with about four to six inches deep.
I put on Vince’s boots and stomped out about five steps to look down the vanishing point. Wow. These clouds have been super busy.
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
This is all exciting the second time out this year. Vince and I feel like kids again. This morning we were living in the clouds. This afternoon, the clouds tried to blast a hole into our home. It clogged up the satellite dish and iced up my window so I can no longer see the snow as it falls.
As soon as the snow clears, I’m getting my own boots. I ordered electric socks to wear under them yesterday after talking to a young neighbor. Then I can take you on a walk the next time it snows.
Attention Photographers
A hobby blogging friend of mine, Frank, is looking for photographers to collaborate with him on his website. He writes but wants to promote your photographs. It’s a great opportunity for fun and exposure. Contact him here. Collaborators – Beach Walk Reflections: Thoughts from thinking while walking (wordpress.com). He will be host #WQWWC on February 10 – LOVE!
Announcements
- This month our Story Chat features author Anne Goodwin and her short story, “A Post Card from the Past.” Join in the conversation and give us your perspective. We’ve heard from writers, teachers, social workers and clinical psychologists each with their own theories. What’s your take?
- I’m super excited that Carrot Ranch ran an interview about Story Chat in the Saddle Up Saloon.
- Autty Jade, A Day in the Brine hosts this week’s Writer’s Quotes Wednesday Writing Challenge – Change. There’s still time to write your post and link to her blog. She’d love to visit you and so would I.
- Welcome Restless Jo as the newest Featured Blogger on the Challenge Host Interview Series coming up tomorrow.
- Wednesday the #WQWWC is back at Always Write. Looking for quotes and responses about trustworthiness.
See you on some of your favorite challenges. What are your favorite challenges?
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
65 responses to “How to #Square Up and Clear Up Sunday’s Still’s Preoccupation with Fog and Clouds”
Wonderful photos for all these challenges 😀
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Thanks, Cee. You should see the snow now. It’s still falling. 🙂
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Electric socks? Are you kidding me, Marsha? They don’t sound very safe to wear in all that snow. I wonder if they’ll take off in the UK?
Stay safe in all that snow and ice. I thought you guys had moved somewhere where it’s warm and sunny most of the year.
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It’s a huge change, Hugh. A neighbor had them on under her boots when I ventured out a couple of days ago. 🙂 Your post got quite a bit of viewing and some good comments. Did you notice?
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Oh, yes, that post has had lots of reblogs and pingbacks too, Marsha. I spent yesterday morning responding to all the comments. And there is more today. I love getting comments, especially the ones that lead to a discussion.
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I agree with you, Hugh. Thanks for taking the time to be such a great commenter. That’s one of the qualities of caring that makes your blog one that I visit over and over again. 🙂
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That’s so kind of you to say. Thank you so much, Marsha.
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🙂
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oh this is such a fabulous set of squares. Loving the weather changes and your photographs are great
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Thanks, Becky B. I also love the up part of your challenge. 🙂
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Thank you 😊 I need to put my thinking cap on for April!
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Yes, I’ll look forward to it. January is almost over. I can see why you don’t do this every month. I can’t imagine what your notification panel looks like. 🙂
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Hee hee yes the panel is busy at times 😀
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Yes, fortunately February will be here soon. Do you get depressed when the comments and pings drop off?
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The first week is all a bit of relief but by week three of the month after I’m looking at the stats and thinking 😒!
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LOL. I’d go nuts. LOL I like a little response. 🙂
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🙂
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Electric socks? Do tell! Do they sing and dance too? 🙂 🙂 Lovely post, Marsha, and so creative your walking on water shots! Made me smile…and I did actually peer closely! SO much snow! That’s unreal 🙂 Definitely big kids again. Thanks for the shout out. Catch you later!
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Bib and getting bigger if I have to stay inside much longer! Thanks for the lovely comment, Jo. 🙂
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Great gallery, Marsha!
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Thanks so much, Sue! 🙂
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it reminds me of my old stomping grouns Marsh in Daly City… fog bank of the world. I couldn’t wait to get out of there. you def stireed up some emotions there. lol… love the crisp snow pics … so fresh!❤️
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It’s fresh and still coming. I’m looking at about 3 feet right in front of me.
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Oh that’ so exciting… more clicks coming I can see! ❤️
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Right now I’m too confined to click. There is about 3-4 feet outside my office window. 🙂
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whoo hoo!
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You inspired me to get off my chair and go outside and click. I put the pics in tomorrow’s post. I’ll be blog visiting tomorrow, too after I get some boots!!
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Oh how exciting … good for you! can’t wait to see! I’m behind ugh.. ❤️🤣
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They are out today. 🙂
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Very pretty. I love these. I’ve also been loving Terri’s challenge.
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Thanks for the compliment, Kirstin. I love Terri’s challenges, too. Here’s an interview I had with her. https://tchistorygal.net/2020/07/14/how-responding-to-a-photo-challenge-focuses-your-writing-and-increases-your-followers/
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That is some thick fog, my friend! I remember those horrid, never-ending fog weeks in Sacramento. The only respite was driving to the foothills to see some sun. The photos are cool! Thick clouds brought that much snow to you! We got maybe 1-2 inches today. More on the way. My brother’s area near Scottsdale got some snow dust today. Crazy weather. By the way, get Sorel boots. Decent price on Amazon.
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Thanks for the boot advice. I’ll look them up. They will go well with my electric socks. 🙂
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Hahaha! Something about electricity and wet snow makes me nervous 😆
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LOL I know. You have to have good boots, I’m thinking. I’ll enjoy them when I first go to bed, too. My feet are so cold!!! Vince will appreciate it, too. 🙂
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Marsha, you snowshoe hare, you need to put up huge buzzing disclaimers. As I read your post, and admired your photos, I almost passed away from all the immense joy…
I had a run-in with some mist last night. As I scrabbled down this lumpy hill (I almost fell several times), I suddenly vanished inside a pool of slushy mist- the kind that looks artificial, often draped ominously all over graveyards and things. Peering up through the diaphanous whir of droplets, I beheld a huge and enchanting “moon-bow”- only to be seen by looking through the mist. Buh….! Spring peepers sirened through a nearby copse of barren trees, completing a wonderful eerie feeling.
Wonderful post. That surf-chop-like image is incredible. Thrilling quotes too. Would love to hear how the electric socks work out…I usually go for wool ones and timberland boots.
And now for a video of screaming peepers. And a man babbling.
Cheers 😉
babs
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Thanks for the wonderful comment, ST. It feels like old times, yes? I have wool socks on right now, and I’m still chilly. I should get them by Thursday. I’ll let you know. Does it get cold enough for electric socks there? Of course, if you’re moving to NY, you will definitely need warmer clothing. 🙂 Glad you made it through the mist unharmed. 🙂
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It did get a little sketchy when I noticed some LED lights flickering through the zebra-wire trees. Will-o’-the-wisp humans bobbing mysteriously (bloody cheek, who ELSE would be wandering around on such a ghostly night?!) over the distant swamp, haunting a primitive campsite just off-trail. I bolted, tripped right back up that lumpy old hill I adore so much, the mist dripping all over me like a dank shawl. The sky-engulfing moon-halo vanished at the top and I could hear crashing sounds through the din of all those mournful brooch-sized tree-frogs- a night that would sooth Vincent Price’s soul…the crashing, of coruse, was a little silvery armadillo, glittering in the moonlight, emerging from the copse. They always sound like some sort of hulking Big-Foot rampaging through the forest. Sir pet one the other night. An armadillo, not a rampaging Big-Foot.
This was not supposed to go on and on like that.
Brumal-wear- I still have mine from the prairie days. I never wear any of it here in FL. Even when it lapses into the thirties and my beloved LH (lumpy hill) glows with frost-smoke, it still feels broiling hot to me. I used to stamp across the “tundra” prairie (I thought I was some kind of micro-Shackleton or something), down into freezing creeks and pervaded the vast expanse of snowy wood, usually, with two pairs of woolies- but these electro-sox sound quite nifty. They have something similar in glove format too, I bet. Oh would that be nice…I look forward to hearing about these things in your scintillating snow reports.
Smiling cheers,
aj
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Snow is what we have, and it’s still coming down. There’s probably three feet on our patio at one end.
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Love your foggy images, Marsha. Some of my favorite days in SF were watching the fog.
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Thanks, Jane! I love SF.
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Great gallery for the prompts Marsha 🙂
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Thank you, Brian. I had fun with this one. Especially the snow! How are you these days. I need to get over and visit you.
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Doing well thanks. A few hot days have kept me indoors most of the time. Yes a pop over would be nice 🙂
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Did I read that right… you get that much snow in Prescott? I love the mystery of fog. That one picture really looks like choppy surf. Too bad you didn’t have someone video of you “walking on water” 🙂
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I know, Janis. I hadn’t looked at these photos for years, and I didn’t even remember how cool they looked. We got a lot of fog in the Central Valley, so I have quite a few foggy pictures.
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Oh yes, I have memories of driving through the Tule fog when we couldn’t see past our windshield. Yikes!
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That’s it. Driving at night was crazy.
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Hi, Marsha – I love how this post combines three link-ups in one. Well done! I love your cloud and fog pictures. The fog pictures made me completely feel that once again I was trapped in surround-sound mist (happens here quite frequently). Great shots!
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Thank you Donna. The sun is out now. It’s gorgeous. I need boots! I just heard that it snowed in Phoenix. That’s really odd.
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Hey hey hey … happened to be online when this popped up … Let’s see if I’m the first comment.
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Now I can continue. 🙂 … When one doesn’t have to deal with it (especially driving), fog is interesting … so much so I have a walk coming up about it. I think Saturday. Clouds? … yep, already done that one – #12. Thanks again for the plug, plus I look forward to hosting your event.
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Thanks, Frank. I look forward to it too. 🙂 You should post your link on Terri’s site. Do you know her? She is really a great friend, and another teacher.
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Thanks for the encouragement … I shared at Terri’s.
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Great! You will really like her.
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We are off to a good start. After all, we both are chatty. 🙂
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Yes you both are! You figured that out already. 🙂
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Shhhhh … whisper … we may not want her to hear this.
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That’s one of the things I love about Terri. No need to whisper. Oh… you mean it will go to her head? Her head can handle it. 🙂 She’s got a good one on her shoulders. – not blown out of proportion. 🙂
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Whisper …. I don’t want her know we’re talking about her. Talking too loud may cause her ears to burn or nose to itch.
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We don’t want that!
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Now you understand!
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LOL, Frank I get it. 🙂
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I think you are. Aren’t you jealous of all this snow? It’s no walk on the beach, but it’s a lot of fun. 🙂
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