With climate change I suspect we will be increasingly besieged by phenomena of all sorts in parallel with the Australian dust storm (visitation). When I lived in Nigeria, Harmattan season would fill the sky and, at its depths, limit visibility to a few yards with gray/white sand particles (dust) blown down off the Southern Sahara. One's skin would veritably crackle!
Now, as they say, the Oceans are rising. The Dutch Consulate has moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Part of their reasoning is that they can provide counsel to the Bay Area as the water rises - a la Amsterdam - to cover our docks and flow into the surrounding cities! I hope I am around to see the first whales and dolphins navigate their way up Market Street! Ah, what our grandchildren may hope to live, if not swim for!
Of the white sharks, I am not so sure, but from a distance.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: dust storm lily
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Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 2:20 AM
The first dust storm here also came with a misty light rain and so the
orange dust became orange mud which attached itself to all it
contacted.
An Arum lily which was in full bloom found itself speckled also with
this wet dust and although I had not intended to use this flower I did
end up using it in a still life which ended up taken five days to put
together. I call it; Still life with speckled dust storm lily.
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