When the Sunshine Is Just Right

Spider Plant & Friends

The plants are moved to the dining table for a  bask in the February morning sunshine. They can see outdoors to be glad they aren't out there on a very windy day. The outside flap for the stove hood vent signals  high winds to me before I even look out the window.

Moving my life around to be in the sunshine would be nice. But, that would take a major move to a much lower latitude. Do you know the latitude you live at?

If you go to forecast.weather.gov (National Weather Service, NWS), and put in your zip code, then you will see a topographical map on the right with the Point Forecast for that station's zip code. Your exact coordinates can be taken by using a compass with that feature. (How far down from the North Pole you are and how far west from the meridian in Greenwich, England.) 

A fun bucket list item is to see what it feels like to be on Earth's  Equator. According to Wikipedia, there are 13 countries that it passes through. The closests to me would be in South America. Interesting though, Hawaii is the American state closests to the Equator at almost 19ºNorth. 

At 44ºNorth, I'm a ways away from the Equator. I haven't even passed through the Equator.

Have you been on the Equator? To Hawaii? South America?

Windy Views Along Lake Champlain

 I am not getting out of my vehicle.

Biting cold windy

The light green water is sunshine.

The darkers waters are cloud shadows.

Lots of rolling white caps.

As I type, a man and 3 old retrievers are walking along the lawn's lake line. 

One old dog trails the rest. The black one stops to turn to check on him.

I hope someday when I am slow older, somebody takes me for a walk,

And turns to check on me.

Patterns of Water & Wind

Wind & Water Patterns

Cirrocumulus Stratiformis

Reflection Monday November 2017

The wind moving through the dry cornfields 

making autumn music, happens once a year

in a small window of time.

A soothing chatter sound

in the symphony of Nature.

Year long the wind through the pine trees
heard on all windy days,

is consistently fresh as if the wind begins 

Earth.