Dawn on the Gulf

[Riley Smith]

A pre-dawn fishing trip, some pictures, a couple of fish on the rod. What was not to like?  Dawn is the only time it even THINKS about being cool. The Moon, Saturn, and Venus are putting on a show just before dawn. And I saw some BIG specks. SAW...not caught   A dolphin came up the river right at daybreak but there wasn't enough light to get a good shot. And the sunrise....well, what can I say but that it was awesome! I paid the piper and mowed after the fishing and went home bathed in sweat. Am permanently ensconced in the A/C until that atomic laser in the sky goes away.

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[Captain Kidd]

Nice pics! Especially the first two!

[Riley Smith]

I have a whole progression of that cloud  I was disappointed to not get any lightning strikes but the electrical show started slacking off once the light grew enough to take a decent picture. Every once in a while there would be a whisper of cool wind out of the NE and it was a wonderous thing. I'll be glad to arrive at the time where I'm wearing a hoodie and doing the same drill   Strangely the white trout have vanished; I didn't catch a single one. Hosting a fish fry has been ricocheting around in my mind but the guests would have starved were it scheduled for today. I hardly ever eat fried food anyway, although I'll have to say that french fries can totally do away with that position.

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[Captain Kidd]

I got a pic of a storm cloud 30 miles away a couple weeks ago. For a lake sailor, I thought it was pretty cool. Obviously we are the blue dot.

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[Riley Smith]

It's pretty cool to gauge the distance of storm clouds with the radar app. We were messing about and not doing much at work one day and there was ONE thunderstorm in the whole clear blue sky. So we pulled it up and turns out it was 60 miles away if my memory serves. Of course atmospheric conditions make a BIG difference in visibility and I've seen conditions here in the South where a severe storm was shielded from direct view by the humidity/haze until it was right on top of you. Some secondary indications such as a marked reduction in light and THUNDER were the giveaways. And then there was the time we checked on the beach before hurricane Georges, and you could SEE Georges as a white backdrop far off in the SE. It was very far away...can't remember how far but well over a 100 miles and that was just the leading edge of the clouds. So far this year, the wind has hardly been out of the S at all. It has been alternating between SW and NE with a little E thrown in for good measure. The S wind blows the blue water from the deep Gulf in closer and all manner of creatures appear, although unless you keep track of the fishing you'd never know it.
PS... Soddy Daisy MUST have a story behind it

[Captain Kidd]

PS... Soddy Daisy MUST have a story behind it

It probably does but, not being from around here, I don't know it. Sounds like the name from some aunt from generations ago.

[Riley Smith]

I got curious and looked..didn't see the hyphen either. Originally it was two communities Sodden and Daisy, so that seems a little more conventional. The pic was nice too. Early morning pictures are the bomb!