[look....I know there is a movie called “A Mighty Wind”...starring our very own Jane Lynch...aka Sue Sylvester on Glee...but that movie was about music....this...is a very different story.]
As I lay in bed looking out the South facing windows, I see a storm brewing. Clouds bearing every shade of gray lurch and stumble clumsily toward our house.
Hmm-mm.
As the Mazda commercial so keenly says...”sump' thin' up”.
Rain starts to fall with a deliberate cadence...Wind winds up like a generator....something it learned from the many hurricanes and cyclones in this world...wait....
Rain is a frenzied staccato trying to either gain entry by constant knocking, or just pulverize the window into glass safety nuggets. Chaos is everywhere....there is no place for air, for people, for cars, for houses....this storm has our house in hand...it has control....Wind has charged through the trees and blasted down the street....it has grabbed Rain and slung it around...nature screams louder and louder...Wind and Rain grappling for control...Wind decides to play its upper hand and starts by sucking in an enormous breath....suddenly it explodes and sends a gust slamming down on Grandview Road...the house shudders and groans...just for a moment...and returns to its foundation.
Rain continues to shed itself, but the house is not fazed...it has taken the worst...it still stands.
Rain and Wind, hand in hand, leave....heading North to its next venue.
I remain looking out at what was....thinking.
I have posted some pictures in my Picasa Web Album for you to thumb through. Most of the pictures were taken the same day as "The Mighty Wind". Click on the photo below to enter Picasa.
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| January 2012 Australia |
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