Kickin’ Myself
posted in General |On our way out the door last night to Father’s Day Dinner, I glanced at my desk where my camera sat, and left it there. Boy, was that a mistake. I missed some great playtime shots of Miss B walking her cousin J around, of them cuddling up with the pigs, of them playing with some MatchBox™ cars (and rocketting them down the table) of Baby K cuddling with the pigs and walking around too- and her flirting with the elderly woman in the booth nearby.
When we arrived at the Russell Street BBQ, we were surprised to hear a real live Emergency Broadcast System alert. Severe thunderstorms in Estacada (Bagby Hot Springs was specifically mentioned) headed slowly north. I had noticed when I was driving the iron-slate color of the southern sky, but several of the anvil-shaped thunderclouds had been moving through Portland today and I figured this was just an extension. They also said that while it was unexpected, a tornado was indeed possible.
Coming home, we were awed by the cloud formations highlit with bright orange and red. And we even saw lightning, which is pretty rare here in the Willamette Valley. Take a look at these other people’s pictures to see why I’m kicking myself today. Skies like these would be terrific to have shot, and I’m regretting not taking the camera.
