From the looks of things, we're all fairly sick of winter.
I am. As much as I loathe the unrelenting heat and merciless humidity of a Mississippi summer, I'm ready to trade in cold rain and lingering snow for heat prostration and chiggers.
So, for anyone else ready to bid farewell to short dim days and long cold nights, here are a few reminders of what's in store for us, a few short months from now.
I call the image above 'The 4th of July.' Mainly because I took it on the 4th, at the big fireworks show here in Oxford, right on the edge of campus. I took this shot with a Pentax K1000 film camera, ASA 400 film, and I held the shutter open manually with a cable. I got lucky and got the explosion, and got very lucky and caught the spectators too, in all their blurry glory. Long live film, baby!
The next shot is from Cade's Cove in Tennessee. Those are the Great Smokey Mountains in the background. That's grass in the foreground. I guess. If it's not on the salad bar, frankly I don't know much about it.
I am. As much as I loathe the unrelenting heat and merciless humidity of a Mississippi summer, I'm ready to trade in cold rain and lingering snow for heat prostration and chiggers.
So, for anyone else ready to bid farewell to short dim days and long cold nights, here are a few reminders of what's in store for us, a few short months from now.
I call the image above 'The 4th of July.' Mainly because I took it on the 4th, at the big fireworks show here in Oxford, right on the edge of campus. I took this shot with a Pentax K1000 film camera, ASA 400 film, and I held the shutter open manually with a cable. I got lucky and got the explosion, and got very lucky and caught the spectators too, in all their blurry glory. Long live film, baby!
The next shot is from Cade's Cove in Tennessee. Those are the Great Smokey Mountains in the background. That's grass in the foreground. I guess. If it's not on the salad bar, frankly I don't know much about it.
Finally, we have a glorious sunset, shot from my own backyard. It was nice and warm that night.
Not a single snowflake anywhere in that sky!
Wait until about August. I'll be blogging about how wretched the heat is, and posting pictures of last month's snow. Such is human nature.
Lou Ann is with me now, just a few feet away. She's on her back in the recliner, with all four feet stuck in the air. Her tongue is hanging out of her mouth, and despite that somehow she's snoring.
I think maybe she has the right idea about wintertime.
Just roll over and sleep right through it.
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