The birth of a Tropical Storm??? ... and other adventures

It won't be long now before Invest 92L earns official tropical cyclone status, and as I mentioned yesterday, they expect this one to bypass Tropical Depression status and jump straight to named Tropical Storm Danny. This tropical disturbance

IS DEVELOPING A WELL-DEFINED CIRCULATION (By clicking on the graphic above, you can see the current loop). THE SYSTEM COULD DEVELOP INTO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION...OR MORE LIKELY A TROPICAL STORM...AT ANY TIME

Currently, there is a NOAA Hurricane Hunter en route to this wave to check things out, and as you can probably tell by this blog-post, I am not on it... sigh. Maybe next time...

What a wonderful lunch excursion my wonderful groom and I had yesterday. Every other Monday and Tuesday, my wonderful groom and I have the opportunity to have lunch together. With it being so hot lately, we have been enjoying the luxury of climate control, but with the heat backing off some, we took the opportunity to drop the top and hit the road for another one of our memorable lunchtime excursions. We can't seem to get enough of those things. The only request I had was a picnic by a river... My wonderful groom prepared a scrumptious lunch for us, and we hit the road. Well, unfortunately, in our exploration (and in fear of running out of time), we didn't find a river in time to eat, but we enjoyed a flavorful lunch under a canopy of trees in a shady alcove on a little known dirt road. After finishing our feast, we had plenty of time to continue our exploration. We stumbled upon a couple of deer stands in the middle of a very recently opened field. It appeared that our local lumber giant had robbed the area of deer hiding spots, so the deer stands looked sadly misplaced. I'm not a fan of hunting (and after last night's venison burgers, found I'm not a big fan of the meat either), so it made me chuckle to see their "hunting area" destroyed. As we continued to explore, we came to the end of the dirt road we were on... and lo and behold... river! What a pleasant surprise. We had no real idea where we were (as is usually the case on our little adventures), and we were so pleasantly surprised when we stumbled upon the Withlacoochee River in the middle of nowhere! Literally, the road ended into the river, so we were able to drive right up and explore.It was so beautiful, tranquil and still out there, except for the persistent pitter of a little waterfall (really little) and the flutter of butterflies everywhere!Aren't we cute??? We had a great time! I love our adventures!

Have a dewlicious day! (I'll share my awesome cloud shot from yesterday tomorrow... this post is full!)
~Dewdrop