Relative Something

Yesterday, I made Cyndie wait to leave the lake place until after the World Cup final, so I could watch the game. I guess it lived up to being a championship match, with neither team being able to get control over the other for more than a split second at a time. I had hoped for more entertainment to lift my spirits. I was suffering from witnessing the implosion of Lance Armstrong in the Tour earlier in the day. Luckily, the soccer game ended up requiring extra time, which delayed our departure even more.

Partway into the extra period, a weather alert flashed across the screen and revealed warnings of a tornado in the vicinity of our drive home. If the game hadn’t gone into overtime, we would probably have gotten caught in some threatening weather. As it turned out, we had waited just long enough for the weather to move beyond our route. However, that presented us with an incredible viewing of the back side of a magnificent meteorological spectacle.

When we reached about halfway home, at Turtle Lake, WI, we found ourselves under sunshine and blue skies, but on both sides of our view, there were fabulous storm clouds billowing high in explosions of energy. Cyndie dug our camera out of my bag and spent the rest of the ride home taking a total of 140 pictures, mostly of the sky.

I think it can be declared a worthy effort. I especially like the ones she captured of the sky behind us, because, since I was driving, I didn’t get to see them the first time.

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. photos by Cyndie Hays