Watching the Weather

My studio time has been a bit of a wash this week.  It’s been too hot to work by about 1:30PM every single day since my space isn’t air conditioned.  By too hot, I don’t mean I’m mildly uncomfortable, I mean I’m sweating like a sieve and feeling a bit faint.  Sparking up my torch and working with it feels a bit like melting my face off.  Right now, another thunderstorm is rolling through town.  I hope it really pours bats and bullfrogs and washes all the heat away.  Plus, my roses could really use a drink.

The storms that pass through Pocatello are always a little pathetic — keep in mind here that I grew up with the ferocious summer storms of the Great Northern Plains with hail the size of softballs, tornado warnings and all other lovely stormy things.  I have some rather large expectations when it comes to:

thunderbolt and lightening 
VERY, VERY FRIGHTENING ME!!!



(Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro 



My storm snobbery has honest roots.  How are the storms where you are, in the summer?  Burly and frightening or cool baby delights, like they are here in Pocatello?


Happy Friday to you all!
Have a beautiful weekend and I’ll see your bright and shining faces on Monday which is when you can also expect a shop update (including, but not limited to, a glitz ring, a belt and buckle, some mondo earrings and a handful of other bits and pieces…)!

Over and out,
Plume

Comments

  1. Buffalo Lucy says

    Oh, you're going to have to come visit me in Kansas where it might be safe to say we have the very BEST storms! I mean, it IS the one thing we're famous for! And one of my favorite things about living here (aside from the destruction, of course!). Right before and after a storm are my very favorite times to take photos. The sky is the most amazing blue grey and when the sun breaks through and illuminates everything else against that sky… There's just nothing else like it.

  2. i dont know what the storms were like in the part of AZ you lived in, but in havasu, all the lovely monsoon storms like to go AROUND us, its quite frustrating. we have not had any rain at all this summer…looking forward to the first big storm..i like to run down the street in front of my house getting soaked to the skin.

  3. the only storm a brooin' here is a brush fire storm across the great highway from my country home in the hills, not far from the sea…here's to watching the weather, which i suppose no matter where one is, one does.
    ta ta for now lovely plume.

  4. CrowNology says

    Magnifico-o-o-o-o

    xo

  5. Kelly Reece says

    Our storms have been very very sparse this year here in Virginia. But I think it's all going to blow up soon….It's all just building and building and building and huge hurricanes will knock our socks off!

    You look comfy on your couch, with your hound. Those are the best comfy times.

  6. we get a little of everything….sprinkles and sunshine, thunder and lightning, hail, tornados, floods, snow in any given month (true native Denverite here, it really happens).

    It is why I have never wanted to leave. I have lived in Maui(rainbows everyday, and not because of Maui Wowie) and Quebec', both fabulous places to live, but Denver will always be home..in fact a storm is a brewing right this moment..

    skepedio
    my word verification, cool!

  7. Lynsey Phelps - VerreEncore says

    i share the same problem – my studio space isn't air conditioned either. it's tough when it's humid and 90-something degrees… to fire up the kiln or torch. phew!

    here's to hoping there are cooler days to let our imaginations explore !

    x
    Lynsey

  8. I will never forget the storms of the motherland…. I was at a farm in Meacham once, standing in the middle of the yard and watching a dark sky spin circles around us and spew sparks out of its edges. Have never seen anything like that again, even with all the storm chasing we did in firefighting. Hope things have cooled down for you. Have a beautiful weekend.

  9. akamilby says

    Storms? In the summer? Sigh . . . . We have to go driving up the mountains chasing our summer storms. They come once in a blue moon here. On the bright side, there's nothing better than driving to a cooler elevation and stepping out of the car into a downpour!

  10. Abigail Jasmine says

    Miss Plume,
    Great photo and yes, a good Summer storm is excellent! Love the little ditty in there by Queen- lol. I currently reside in Korea & no Summer storms here, just down pours of rain! I surely miss them too!

  11. sylvestris says

    I grew up in Florida and so have experienced HURRICANES and TORNADOES as well as daily Everglades-to-ocean thunderstorms in summer.

    Vienna offers periodic righteous thunderstorms with serious hail and BIG WIND with systems blowing down from the north.

    I love fire and brimstone and wind and blizzard-white. Nothing else feels like real storm!

    🙂

  12. The Noisy Plume: says

    I KNEW you to be storm loving women!!!!!!!!!
    Thanks for sharing, all of you, I can nearly taste the lightening in the air!