Sunflowers

Last weekend, I went on an adventure, part of which included a visit to a field of sunflowers I'd been eyeing & hoping to catch some photos of. They are all dried up, heads hanging so low & heavy---full of seeds & ready for harvesting. There were ladybugs everywhere. And I loved being there.

My carload of adventure passengers & I pulled onto a dirt road behind the field, off the highway.

And I started snapping, snapping, snapping away.

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My First "Almost" Tornado!!

I panicked. Simple as that. Which meant my kids did too. It was crazy. The video only captures the insane non-stop lightning. But the sky was all mean-looking & angry & WOW. And it was windy. And exhilirating & scary.

The tornado sirens were sounding & we got to the shelter. Well, I was a straggler because I was trying to get all my camera stuff scooped up. My heart started beating very fast as I walked from my house, just next door to the church. I was out there all alone, for just a moment, with that big bully of a storm. Oh man, it was CRAZY!! And we sat & waited for the all-clear siren. It was only about 30 minutes.

I was so bummed because I couldn't figure out how to use my BIG girl camera in the dark stormy setting. So, I got ONE picture with my point-n-shoot.

And a friend took this one with my camera:

I never did get to see the funnel(s).

But I heard that with summer arriving, this is just the beginning...

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