Larry & Shirley (and the Messy Monkeys): Flying Saucer Clouds

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Flying Saucer Clouds

Sure enough, last night the rain came.... I was inspired by a comment on yesterday's post to do an Internet search on sun dogs and clouds. "In a flash" (love high-speed/broad band), I found plenty of information by entering various descriptive words into Google. The strange cloud I saw yesterday was mostly certainly a lenticular (lens-shaped) cloud--also called a "flying saucer" cloud. It dominated the eastern sky above Mount Pilchuck. I really wish I could have photographed it--it was an amazing cloud. I copied some images that I found online that are the close as I can get to what I saw.

Unfortunately, they are quite small. :(

This one was captioned the Star Trek Enterprise, which is what I thought my cloud looked like, only with sunrise colors.

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Glad you did some research on the clouds issue and what you saw up there...I'm always fascinated by clouds and love looking into the sky...there's often something "up there to see"...and if not, just to know that GOD is reigning supreme above it all.

Tell me, what does your triathalon consist of? A neighbor of ours is a real "marathoner" and enters lots of different runs/etc. He just completed a triathalon: 112 mile bike ride, 26.2 mile run, & 2.4 mile swim all in 10 hrs. & 58 minutes....whew!!!!

I'm committing myself to a 30-mile relay next February 09. 4 of us walk "two legs of the 30 miles"...in a race, but you CAN'T run you have to walk......; December 2, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Shirley said...: Yeah, the sky has always been one of my "favorite subjects!"

About triathlons: your neighbor did what's called an Ironman. (You know Jeff & Bonnita? Jeff's brother Stan has done an Ironman.) There's also a half Ironman--the swim, bike and run portions are each half the distance. Then there's Olympic distance 1.5K swim (or 1500 meters), 40K bike (22 mi.), 10K run. The most popular tri, and the one I'll hopefully do, is the Sprint. Sprint distances can vary, depending on the locationa and course, but usually, they are about a 1/2 mile swim, 20K or 12+ miles bike, and 5K (3.1 mi.) run. The one I want to enter is a little shorter, as it's billed as a "recreational" tri. (1/4 mile swim, 10 or 12 mile bike, 2.6 mile run.); December 3, 2008 at 9:43 AM

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Welcome to Our Place - Updated for Spring 2012

We live between Marysville and Granite Falls. Larry still works at Crane-Eldec in Lynnwood, but due to a change in his work schedule in February 2011, he is no longer in a van pool. Instead he bought himself a Ford Focus to use as his work car. Shirley is Mom, "chauffeur," and chief bunny caretaker. We have two daughters: Rosanna, age 20, and Caroline, age 17.We used to have two pet bunny brothers, Lucky and Thumper, who turned 9 years old on October 5. But Lucky got really sick, and had him put to sleep a few days before Christmas last year. So sad.... Thumper doesn't even miss him; he is happy as long as he is fed!

Larry and Shirley are really into running this year, qualifying for Half Fanatics in January. The Seattle Rock-n-Roll half marathon will be our fourth in 2012, and we would like to do four more, if possible, and move up in Half Fanatics!
Caroline is a junior in high school, and Rosanna continues to work at the Ralph Lauren Polo store at Seattle Premium Outlets in Tulalip.

We all continue to enjoy taking photos, and Rosanna also took a photography class at Everett Community College last spring. (We bought her a Nikon DSLR for the class). She has made some money doing photography for a local business in nearby Granite Falls last fall. And I am still using my super tiny Olympus camera for photos "on the run!"