Thursday, January 31, 2013

Foggy Walk

It's another foggy morning. This pattern has held for the last day or so. Along with this soupy fog, we have extremely mild temperatures. It's 53º F, as I pound out this page. When the temperatures hit this area on the thermometer, throw in some rain, and melting snow, driving can be like trying to traverse through a curtain of whiteness. I find it in many ways a lot trickier driving then in a heavy snow. Throw in the fact that one of my headlights seems to be a bit off kilter and shooting upwards instead of straight ahead, when the high beam is on, and you've got a recipe for caution. You better slow down. One of J's games on his old Sega System was a car race game. We played it all the time. As you sent cars racing and careening off the racetrack there was a voice that kept repeating, "Take it easy on the car", over and over again. We use to laugh, hysterically as the voice would repeat that refrain. Till this day, it's a running gag in our house, when things are tending to be moving too fast for safety, and a big mistake looms on the horizon. "Take it easy on the car", are words of wisdom when attempting to maneuver through this heavy pea- soup stuff and our daily lives for that matter. Slow down and enjoy the trip. And by the way, the early morning fog is stunning, lighting the roadside views. Take it all in.

We better enjoy this 53 number while we can. It's back into the deep freeze this weekend!

17 comments:

  1. We've been driving in this soup for two days now...not much fun!

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  2. Wise words...I'm wondering what this place is...Construction maybe?

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    1. Oh, it's a 'construction site' alright but not the one that readily comes to mind, I bet.

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  3. I think fog always gives some mystery in pictures, this one is wonderful!Great shot, fabulous perspective!
    Léia

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  4. but it's raining so hard and blowing like mad and it's not very inviting to go walking in it, is it?

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  5. Super photo to go with your text. I like this sort of perspective, and that fog enhances it nicely. I'm hearing on the weather report that we've got fog here. I wonder if my neighborhood has any. I'll know in a little while when I go out to catch the first bus of the morning.

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  6. i think i'll adopt that phrase - with the car meaning my body. :)

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  7. Fog makes for challenging driving but opens huge possibilities for our photography... like this great shot, love the receding perspective...

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  8. Gorgeous photo today. Fog does make some interesting pictures.

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  9. We had a horrendous accident on I-75 about a year ago when cars crossing Payne's Prairie near Gainesville hit a combination of dense fog and smoke. Hundreds were involved and something like 20 people were killed. Some cars stopped in the middle of the Interstate. Others pulled off the road only to be hit by others doing the same thing. Bad. Be very, very careful!

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  10. Love the shot! We had the same weather yesterday - people out in just light coats, no gloves etc, and today the temp is plummeting resulting in flash freezing and lots of accidents.

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  11. Makes me wonder if someone is lurking.

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  12. I love how phrases make their way into our family lives and experiences. We have many like that. This photo makes me think of when our art teacher taught the vanishing point.

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  13. When I was a teenager, my older sister went up to Hampton Beach on a date. Her date's car broke down. (Yeah, yeah, I know, but it really did.) They called home and asked me to drive up there to get them. It was the foggiest night I can remember. Normally it would have been a 45 minute drive. I drove up with my head out the window at about 15 miles per hour. Then I had to reverse it. I got home at about 4 a.m., completely exhausted from the stress of late night driving in the fog.

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  14. Suggestive of eternity. . . .



    Sending Aloha to YOU
    from Honolulu,
    Comfort Spiral
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  15. Makes me wonder what could be at the other end.

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