December Deluge

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Brevard County, Caterpillar, Florida, Frog, Nature, Nikon, Rain, Snake, Video

Just a wee nature video…

No snow here in Florida at the moment, so a sluicing of rain shall have to suffice.

Cheers,

Autumn Jade

Drown in Sinuous Streams

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Autumn, Black and White, Brooding, Hiking, Introspection, Melancholy, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Thoughts, Water, Woods

Dull eyes, like nail-heads

Drown in sinuous streams

Dusk in November

Dappled green slug skin

Raspy leaves tangled in wind

Accordion cravings

Smell of foggy woods

Staggering in solitude

Cold heavens asperge

Wood-fire tango

Tendrils of rain punch the flames-

Broodings, vespertine

Craggy Gutter

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Black and White, Decay, Drear, Fall, Gutter, Leaves, Nature, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Thoughts

Dull dysthymia
Lurches in dawn
Hearing wind chimes
And conscience gone

Pneuma, a ragged reflection,
Stolid, bold as the barren kern
That stumbles into scathing sea
These eyes of limestone, wrathful burn

It is captured, then bleeds detached-
Down-trodden, the Lone Leaf that flits
In the cool wind’s mist, a grey wheeze
Vomits barnacles, writhes and spits

Reticent It swims in pools of rain
Gathered in the craggy gutter
Lil’ yellow leaf swirling alone
Decays there with doleful flutter

Such is a Soul
Dead cries implore
Mute, say one thing
And nothing more

Dusk and Rain…

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Bike, Bird, Black and White, Boca Raton, Dreary, Droplets, Florida, Gustave Flaubert, Jack Kerouac, Juno Beach, Matsuo Basho, Meandering, Nature, Photography, Quotes, Rain, Scott Nicholson, Sea, Thoughts

“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”
―Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“this autumn
why am I aging so?
to the clouds a bird”
―Matsuo Basho

“The rain fell like dead bullets.”
―Scott Nicholson

“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”
―Gustave Flaubert

An Electric Friday Night

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Black and White, Cars, Charging Station, Chevy, Climate Change, Eco, Electric, Electric Motorcycle, Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk, EV, Events, Florida, Global Warming, Green, IDEAS, Innovation, Nissan Leaf, Orlando, Photography, Plug-in, Rain, Science, Technology, Tesla, Volt, Wekiva Island

My idea of the perfect, jolly splendid time on a Friday evening must include sustainable technology. Singing and cavorting with wind turbines, doing pirouettes and cartwheels with solar panels, or being assaulted by ambulating infants as I roll about in puddles with a scintillating series of electric vehicles are all absolutely stellar plans for a mind-blasting good time for me. Throw in some owl sightings and some squeaking bats swiveling in the sky, and I have reached Utopia.

So, this past Friday night, Sir and I sluiced over to an electric car celebration, er, show, rather, in Orlando, organized by I.D.E.A.S. (Intellectual Decisions on Environmental Awareness Solutions). Local owners of the Chevy Volt, Tesla, and Nissan Leaf, along with two electric motorcycles, displayed their vehicles. Despite the drizzle of rain, there was quite an ebullient crowd, charged with the electric current of inspired ideas for the future.

I must note that I found it exceedingly difficult to resist bopping one of the fine motorcyclists off his two-wheeled, gently cooing, electric chariot so that I could proceed to ride off into the bleary sunset, squealing away pure puerile elation.

“Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option…they will become a necessity.”
–Fujio Cho

“One must generate electricity in a sustainable way, as well as consume it in a sustainable way.”
-Elon Musk

“People will say, ‘Well, don’t electric cars create pollution at the power plant level?’

“It should be noted that for any given source-fuel, it is always better to generate the power at the power plant level and then charge electric cars and run them, because power plants are much more efficient at extracting the energy than internal combustion engines in a car.

“Power plants are at least twice as efficient, and usually more like three-times as efficient. Even if the whole world were always to be powered by hydrocarbons, it would still make sense to do electric cars.

“But, of course, we must also find a sustainable means of generating energy. I think the main candidate for such energy generation is actually solar. I think the physics of this is rather obvious.”
-Elon Musk, quote from a lovely Oxford talk that can be seen Here

“Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are people who have entered into the exercise of imagining and bringing into being a sustainable world. They see it as a world to move toward not reluctantly, but joyfully, not with a sense of sacrifice, but a sense of adventure. A sustainable world could be very much better than the one we live in today.”
―Donella H. Meadows, “The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
–Margaret Mead

“I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it’s twice the efficiency of a Prius”
-Elon Musk

Of Arduous Grey

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Black and White, Dreary, Garden, Morning, Nature, Personal, Photography, Poetry, Rain

Of Arduous Grey,

These

Bleary mornings-

Creature caged

Beast

With gentle eyes-

This is Love

Childlike

Within the Heathen

Hugging rabbits

Sautéing onions

And black beans

Then

Weeping

In the garden

Alive

With the brilliance

Of Rain

Plumes of acrid smoke

Swirling in Dawn

This Life-

One long, laborious

Over-dose

Man Incognito in Bleary Afternoon

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Abstract, Art, Black and White, Character, Corel Draw, Experimental, Imaginative, Musing, Noir, Odd, Peculiar, Pensive, Photoshop, Portrait, Rain, Silly, Story

Milky morn vanquished by the sluicing firmament- Man Incognito slides along gritty pavement.

A lapse in the torrent, and he is a blur before me, blank in the vacant street. I recede deeper into the sliding grey shadows that bleed down from the eaves.

Bullets of mercury rain ricochet upon the fissured sidewalk.

Stooped beneath that drooping, dripping checked fedora, he is hazy-still.

His nose is glinting sharp, dark glasses flecked with rain-

Looming before me like a condor.

His unseen eyes gawp into me from the drear, and there is a flitting moment of strange Recognition- as the sun struggles to dissolve the steel-mesh above.

Then comes the drowning deluge, and he glides on, scrambling after the Darkness, leaving splinters of misty rainbow in his tracks.

Hamburger Knees

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Addiction, Black and White, Dark, Experimental, Experimental Photography, Facial Expression, Grainy, Night Photography, Noir, Poetry, Rain, Shadow

Smoky rain snivels through hacking breeze

Neat tidy mind savagely tangled

Wrangled, scraping-bleak, sliding off Speed

Man crumpled on two hamburger knees

Dusty eyes the green of dying leaves

Thoughts like Wintry Rain

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Black and White, Florida, Forest, Haiku, Nature, Nikon, Pensive, Photography, Rain, Reflection, Sad, Water

Blithesome wind brushing

The black and fulgent waters

Thoughts like wintry rain

Porcine Wings and Flower Skulls

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Abstract Photography, Drear, Night, Night Photography, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Thoughts

Door swinging in wind

Waiting for the midnight train-

Possum waddles by

In street-puddles swims the moon

Water oily black

Wandering in rain-sloshed thought

Roads brushed in silence

In the grimy windowpane-

Fog and memory