Reigning over the Sciences...

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alone in the dark

my energy fades

affections grow dim

in the light of tomorrow

LadyAnne

Snow and Ice

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The ice storm bearing down on Oklahoma this week is just another in a growing list of major storms to hit the state over the last decade. One weather historian says the frequency of major ice storms has gone up dramatically over the last decade.

Since 2000, the state has experienced seven major ice storms with ice totals of more than an inch; that doesn't happen by accident.

Since the mid 80s, the state's winter temperatures have been much higher than the historical average.

"A warmer atmosphere means more water, so when it does rain there's more rain. That then causes damage in form of ice or snow," says Gary McManus.

The bad news is winter trends don't change overnight.

Gary doesn't expect the ice storms to stop any time soon.

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OKLAHOMA CITY -- With the snow and ice headed our way, Oklahomans are pouring into local supermarkets and hardware stores to get supplies. Truckloads of generators are arriving at O'Connors Lawn and Garden Store in OKC.

Shaun O'Connor of O'Connors Lawn and Garden said, "A lot of people remember 2007 where we had a massive ice storm that shut down power for days, weeks. So, we have been going crazy."

Off the delivery trucks and into customers' truck beds, customers like Sandy Payne were anxious to get one. In Sandy's husband's case, it's a life or death situation without power.

Sandy Payne said, "He's on oxygen now. It runs on electricity and that's what keeps him breathing. Without power, he can't breathe."

O'Connors has sold about 200 generators in just the past two days.

Their last truckload will be in Thursday morning.

Skating?

LadyAnne

The Nose Knows

"Do I have something on my face?"

LadyAnne

Through a Camera-lens darkly...

I wrote the below poem this Sunday, as I was coming out of church and on the trip back to campus.

The story behind it is as follows. Every time I neglect to take my camera with me, I inevitably regret it. It was a windy, rainy morning, with just the right amount of sun to make the water beautiful. Walking down the path to the parking lot, I glanced down and spotted three or so pine boughs, lying as though carefully placed, on the dark wet pavement. I reached for my camera bag only to realize I had figured that I'd not need it that day and left it back at my apartment. Just in that moment of disappointment and self-disgust, a line flitted through my mind;

(Everywhere I go, I see my life through a camera lense;

stills and pictures that might have been.)

Somewhat different from the finished product that I have here; it was in another meter that didn't fit as well with the rest of the poem as it begin to come to me. I twittered that thought and figured that was the end of it.

But then as I was driving back, I started thinking about the oddity that every time I leave without my camera, I see something that is remarkably picture worthy. And the different times that stood out to me started to arrange themselves into a metered rhyme.

Now, just a disclaimer: I am very much NOT a writer, and never poems. So the inherent problems therein I could not even tell you, much less correct.

I just liked the way it sounded and wanted to keep it for my own future reference.

So, here ya go. Please feel free to pick it to shreds. Or not. Not might be good. Yeah, I like not...

Every where I go,

my life through a camera lens;
momentary stills

and pictures that might have been...

Pine boughs on the pavement,
leaves that have to fall,
snow upon the walkways,
ice flows on the walls...

Beauty in the airways,
birds in all the trees,
each breathtaking moment
that others seldom see...

They grasp me in their power,
God's creations in my life,
an awe-inspiring tribute,
my relief from pain and strife...

LadyAnne

In the Rain

I'll never let you see
The way this broken heart is hurting me
I've got my pride
And I know how to hide
All the sorrow and pain
I'll do my crying in the rain

If I wait for cloudy skies
You won't know the rain from the tears in my eyes
You'll never know
That I still love you so
Though the heartaches remain
I'll do my crying in the rain

Raindrops falling from Heaven
Could never wash away my misery
Since we're not together
I pray for stormy weather
Raindrops falling from Heaven
Could never wash away my misery
Since we're not together
I pray for stormy weather
To hide these tears I hope you never see

Some day when my crying's done
I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun
I may be a fool
But 'til then darling you'll
Never see me complain
I'll do my crying in the rain

I'll do my crying in the rain
I'll do my crying in the rain
I'll do my crying in the... rain

LadyAnne

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Air/Shows...

"Exhibitionism in all it's forms are my abhorrence." Seriously. What the world?

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A few more treasures captured from the air...

Snowy Oklahoma...

Cold air + big factory exhaust = Really cool looking steam clouds.
Clouds from above...
Wider angle of clouds from above...

LadyAnne

Away... you rollin' river...

Here are a few pictures from the air. You may either play this larger playlist as you look through or just play the few select that I scattered throughout...

I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly

I wish I had a river
I could skate

away on

Ah gits weary
An' sick of tryin'
Ah'm tired of livin'
An' skeered of dyin',
But ol' man river,
He jes'keeps rolling' along.

O' man river,
Dat ol' man river,
He mus'know sumpin'
But don't say nuthin'
He jes' keeps rollin'
He keeps on rollin' along

Moon River - Henry Mancini & H...

LadyAnne