Monday, May 4, 2015

Roiling Disturbances

Wow...now thats what I call weather! This morning the clouds were in and around the Sandia Mountains and it was great to grab a few shots. The colors were base golds and oranges..not a silver blue around. Loads of virga too. THe moon was bright behind me on the Western edge of the mesa. It was a pointedly waiting day...


And it did..until twenty minutes to three when I would have been walking out to my truck.. then hell broke loose. We lost both radars to comms errors that had to be verified then reported and right on the top of that the phone system went nuts. All of this pointing to our service provider. As soon as I could report it they found the socket / plug / port that was crashed and got it back up. Everything went bright green... It was totally insane hour and a half. THen there was a problem with a desktop profile and that took our ITO another bunch of time to locate the possible problem and cleared it. Nuts... By then it was so late and the rains and hail were crashing down.. well they were before but we had no time to bother with it except for some gleeful sounds from the ops floor... very strange.

Back to this morning.... I took some shots.... Sky.. moon..mountain...plane on hold... cool stuff..

On the edge.
 East


Poised.
West.

Upside.

 Big sky.

Roilings
Edge of darkness.

Blue Wash
Wind towers view.

Standby.
On the pad.

A quick run outside and back in again.... We have a nice view except for all the hangers to the east. Barbed wire fences, planes, cars....and stuff.. but you can sometimes catch it just right.

On the way home caught a nice double rainbow.. and a nice picture of my pond... I was hoping for more light on the flowers but I make it home in time to catch the light. It was impressive how excited the atmosphere was with all the water in it. There was light everywhere... everything was glowing and throwing off micro colors. I wished I had had the time to use the main camera but I didnt... the rainbow show was with my phone.

See how bright the colors are... it was very wild.


Clarity.
Through the glass door and at a distance but still cool.

My facebook banner  is from a shot over the weekend.. I liked it and wanted to post it and laugh. Even the logo was from today.... the moons!

Modded for the daily count.. can you find it?

The moon was super cool.

I am off to find things..... I guess its gonna be a snack instead.... maybe a little milk.

Such exciting times!