i liked cooking at the outdoor kitchen in AZ for the same reason. i like taking pictures of people cooking in outdoor kitchens in AZ. was that sage, sr. by the grill?
on one day i remember, there were so many absolutely crazy looking
lenticular clouds in all sort of shapes..single, doubles, stacks like pancakes --
all floating along from the chiricahuas toward the mule mountains...and it all
looked so crazy and impossible it was making me laugh.
being in an area with so many mountain ranges with desert between it was great
...i know you will already know that because you have spent years in those kind
of places and also with flying. lenticulars and cumulonimbus are first two clouds that new pilots learn to recognize and avoid. <g>
t u r b u l e n c e !!
lenticulars, often called "standing" lenticulars, are lens shaped. they usually form over mountains
when there are high winds aloft. they're continually forming on the upwind side of the cloud by
condensation from rising/cooling air as the mountain forces wind upward on the windward side...
at the same time they are continually dissipating on the leeward side of the cloud by the evaporation
from sinking/warming air as the airmass comes back down on the downwind side of the mountain.
they look like they are standing still because the part of them that is visible stays over the mountain.
they actually have winds in excess of 100kts flowing through them. it can be very turbulent around
them which belies their deceptively smooth edges. the biggest danger for aircraft is the extreme
downdrafts on the lee side. the lenticular cloud is nature's warning sign to pilots and birds that there
are bumps in the road ahead. :-)
i always see at least some of them when driving down to mexico because there are so many
mountains and deserts and high winds aloft at least somewhere along the route.
here's one everyone has seen over mt. fuji: (i've seen some stacked like pancakes)
i like to think of our bodies in the same way, with all the energy continually forming and dissipating
as it moves through us. it's hard to decide which is us, just like the lenticular cloud... are we the
visible part? or are we the massive energy flow on the move through us? if you start identifying
with the energy instead of the optical illusion (that's continually forming/dissipating) then the next
thing you know, you'll be reading leonard cohen's poems, songs and writings.
and that's just our bodies. don't EVEN get me started on our minds ...or spirits,
or dogs, or the higgs boson particle, or da rum mon.
NOW... you know i'm questioning my identity every time i see a lenticular cloud. i lean
toward the "energy" one as a part of the whole electric universe... especially NOW... |
