I'm still a fan!

I was terribly disappointed that the Patriots didn't take the Jets in the Play-offs. I had high hopes for an exciting Super Bowl. I had temporary tattoos and everything. My wonderful groom was even sweet enough to patronize my Pats by wearing some cheek art...Unfortunately, even though I got a bunch of support gathered for my team, they still didn't win the game on Sunday, and I got a great chance to eat a little crow. I still love my Patriots! They'll get 'em next year!!

Anyway, I wasn't writing for that... I wanted to share this great sky shot that Mini-Dew took coming back from Tampa. How cool is this? She's got quite an eye.Have a great day!!!
~Dewdrop

Agh! Stay away, cold!!!

Well, the crazy winter storm is sort of consuming the Weather Channel. Unfortunately, where snow and ice are a regular part of winter in some parts of the country, such things in the southeast just aren't frequent enough for these areas to be fully prepared fiscally and resource-wise. Even more unfortunately, this is a bad scenario, given the lack of snow removal equipment and salting mechanisms. The area first received rain which froze in their freezing temps, then, snow piled on top, which might get a slight chance of melting some before sleet and or freezing rain pile on top of all that mess with temps below 32°F until Wednesday. EEK!Fortunately, the bad stuff is staying north of us, but just barely. I'd rather not participate, thank you. I'm content having plenty of milk and bread. Mini-Dew and I did note at least 100 power and tree removal companies headed north out of Florida, while we were headed to and returning from Tampa this weekend. It was good to see them getting ready and realizing the extent of the storm damage. Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee had all declared states of emergency last I heard... apparently Mississippi has "got this". They're special. I think that if I were Governor of Mississippi, I would go ahead and declare that emergency, just in case... you never know.

Speaking of Tampa, while Mini-Dew and I were headed down, I spotted this great patch of cloud iridescence... cool stuff. I think it was part of the 22½° solar halo, but the only patch I saw was this iridescence, so I grabbed my camera.While we were down there, we stopped at a 5 Guys Burgers and Fries to partake in the best burgers in the universe and I decided to grab a skyline shot.Have a bright day!
~Dewdrop

Miss me???

Wow... with limited access, it's hard to be motivated enough to take the measures required to break into blog-world. Sorry, folks. I do love you... it's just such a pain in the kiester. I have been super busy, and we have had very little speakable weather. We had a ridiculous cold-spell, which tried to rob us of our garden-grown tomatoes, but we foiled the plan of the evil frost and rescued our tomatoes and other plants. Unfortunately, the peppers and squash didn't make it. We had a heavy rain on New Year's Day which just about creamed our tomato plant, but once again, I foiled Ma Nature's evil schemes.

New Year's Eve and Day were record setting severe weather days... no, not here, but west of here (way west), there was a deadly outbreak of tornadoes. We just got the (much needed) rain and now, the cool weather, but it's actually quite mild here except for the morning frosts... Our New Year's was atypically uneventful, unless you consider my wonderful groom's rotator cuff/reattached bicep fully involved shoulder surgery. What started out as a likely partial tear 6-week recovery arthroscopy, turned into a 4 1/2" incision, drilled bones, 12-16 week recovery... my poor wonderful groom... he's been a good sport though, recovering well. I hope the doctor's wrong about the recovery time, and we sure would appreciate prayers to that end. We did have minor celebration, but the pain he had sort of took him out of the partying mood. Just as well...

I did get one exciting sky shot in all the time since I've spoken with you last. On Christmas Eve, while we were headed over the river and through the woods, to Grandma's house... I did spy a complete solar halo, complete with LOWER tangent arc. That was quite the treat. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to zoom out enough to capture the whole thing... but here you are... you get the picture.
Have a brilliant day!!!

~Dew