Friday, December 16, 2011

SALT OF THE EARTH AND THE SEAS AND PLENTY OF SKY

Everything was covered in a layer of grey dirty-looking salt after the recent severe storms.  What you see out of this window is the remainder of the snowfall we also had. I got the hose out and rinsed off the car so I could see where I was going through the windscreen . The salt covering made it like I was looking through smog. The windows here at home were equally as opaque. It cut down the access of the little bit of daylight we have in the Winter. This is a picture taken through the window, just after the first attempt at cleaning the windows with the hose spray. Stronger stuff was obviously called for.

Salty-windows-after-Storm

I was struck by the variation of colours, density and the portents in the skies on this morning. There were totally different skies between the front and the back of our house, the one thing in common you could see, was the amount of movement and wind up in the cloudscape.
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On the other side and over the fields was a sunrise.
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The skies were fascinating though threatening. They gave us plenty of warning that there was a weather event to come.
Morning-Skies-2-Wb

As I watched and waited the sky scene very swiftly changed. Then as I turned towards the North I saw this;
Morning-Sky-Wb-2
It was like a refracting bolt. And yes......we have the weather, we are having the threatened weather, and there is plenty more to come.

4 comments:

keiko amano said...

ZACL,

The views are plain gorgeous! I can imagine threatening part as it is fascinating. About salt, I'm amazed that you can actually see and feel the amount of it. Does someone there make salt for cooking? It must be good because of sea salt.

ZACL said...

A very insightful question keiko. There is no salt manufacture locally, but there are parts of the country with names that tell you they were areas where salt production was an industry. I would have to do some research to answer your question about the current situation with salt production in the UK.

Thank you for your comment.

keiko amano said...

ZACL,

Hmm. I think people there have a business opportunity like mail order of special Scottish sea salt.

ZACL said...

You could be right Keiko. It is possible that there is something under another name. Salt is certainly obtained within the UK for our various uses.