Monday, April 5, 2010
Maybe he is reading the news, earthquake 86 miles from us yesterday, 6.9 strength, among the items? Sunday was a crap day for me. I woke with a terrible sinus headache, so stayed home all day. I took many naps through the day and was sleeping when the quake hit. When the bed first shook, I thought Julia was joining me in my nap. I opened my eyes, but Julia wasn't there. Second sleepy thought, "Ghost of Laura coming to join me in my nap?" When the bed continued to shake, I woke up fully. No visible natural cause, no invisible supernatural cause, it was not easily visible geological cause. I got out of the shaking bed to find Julia in the living room. She was still sitting on the sofa. Pictures were swinging on their hooks, but none fell. It seemed longer than a minute's worth of shaking. When the earth finally settled, we found fallen statues. Ma'at (Goddess and/or principle of order and balance) was disturbed and in response her statue fell on its side. We uprighted the fallen statues, and held steady as we could through the many after shocks. I may not be imagining it, the cracks in our concrete patio floor seem deeper and wider than they were before.
Oddly, a 4.9 quake happened ten minutes after the Mexico quake later up by Healdsburg in Northern California and less than an hour later, a 5.1 quake happened near Imperial,CA.
"While Dutton said researchers aren't quite sure which fault was home to Sunday's big earthquake, they do know that aftershocks of varying magnitudes are erupting all through the other faults in the area." (Source: Yuma Sun)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Meanwhile, I'd rather think about more tranquil things. I still haven't exhausted the fair flower photos yet, and here's one more:
I failed to capture details on this Phalaenopsis orchid ...
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Original 8x10 and piece info available for the scroll down and click through under the link.
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