Space Cowgirl Ropes A Texas Tornado! Once in a Lifetime Shots! by: brendasue

I Kissed A Texas Tornado, Roped It, and Bringing It to You!!  Hi Everybody. When this Storm left Texas it continued North producing Tornadoes everywhere and becoming the 2nd worst Storm in History.

When the Little King and I left the cabin, Gray skies covered the sky and I doubted I would get any Sunset Shots today.  The routine ride is Little King sits on the front seat and watches out the front window. We make one turn.  When I stop the car, he has to be the first one out the door to run down the Country Road!


On this day, I let him out, but I noticed a very powerful wind that was not at the Cabin. He took off down the road and I grabbed my camera to catch one Golden spot in the sky.

My oh My look at this sky!

This is right above my head!   Oh the wind is blowing so hard and sucking up into that cloud.

One spot of Gold is a Sunset!

Little King come back, it is a tornado forming, we have to go!
You can see the clouds going over the road. (sunset to right).

The sky seems to crack open and Glow. It is sooo windy.

Zoomed in to the orange crack. Would you look at that!

Zooming back out so you can see this funnel cloud forming. It is a tornado.  Little King come back, we must go for real.

The Sun lights up the bottom tail of the Tornado.

OMG,

Come Back now Little King and get in the Car. It is coming down.

Oh this is big, really big.  I am so scared but I cannot stop taking the Photos!

I have never seen anything like this, ever.
Okay he is in the car. It is soo windy still.

The bottom tail of the Tornado is just above the tree. It is still coming down. I am in the car, too.

Look!  The sky has parted and it is the Sun! I do not believe it.

The most spectacular Sunset of my Life! (Maybe I am going to die in the next few minutes.)

I hear my Daddy's voice yelling:  Get the Hell out of Dodge!
But I can not move.  Is anyone else seeing this event???  How could I be the only one to see this tornado?  Look at that Sun!

I am soomed in as close as I can go with this camera. The sun is illuminating the inner chamber of the Tornado.   OMG

You can see the lower tail on the left just above the tree.  This is an open vent going up the middle of this cloud sucking up the wind like a vacuum  cleaner.  It is a Funnel Cloud. It is hovering just above the sun. I am so weak and overwhelmed.

I do not know how You feel about praying. I do not care. As for me, right now I am praying.  I do not know what I am praying for. I just See that I am in the presence of Great Power and absolute Glory.
Something has just happened---the wind has stopped. It is dead still.
From lots of wind to nothing in an instant. What is going on here?

Look at that Chamber of the Tornado. It is lighting up.

You can see the Tornado tail and the ground in this photo. This is as close at it comes to the ground (Close enough for me!)
The wind has stopped and by the Grace of God, this cloud is lifting up.

You can see it lifting up over the sun.  You can see the funnel cloud in the middle top of this frame.  What a huge Tornado, this storm is going to cause some bad weather.

The vent chamber is still open, but the cloud is still slowly lifting. There is no noise, no wind---Just me, the King in the car and a Tornado.

You can see the tail that was above the tree has lifted off to the right.  (Thank You)

Oh My-The Power, The Glory before me and IN my camera.

The interior funnel cloud is lit up by the sun beaming through the clouds.  Oh my, there are just not words to express this feeling. I feel so very small. I am nothing.

Keep on Lifting Up Baby!  A very Powerful Cloud.

You can clearly see the funnel cloud moving rapidly to the right.
Any of those hanger down clouds could turn into a tail and come down to earth.   Now the momentum of the storm is moving to the right and up whereas it was sitting on top of me about 15 minutes.

The darkest concentration of clouds on the horizon is well off to the right now (heading North) Hope someone is tracking this on the radar. A very big Storm.

I am showing this shot in black and white for detail. You can see the tail has closed up and is still lifting up.

To the left, the clouds are breaking up exposing the last of the Sunset. To the right you can see the remainder of the funnel cloud as it disintegrates.

There it goes:  Up, Up and Away!

And here we go, the King and I out from under these clouds, back down this Country Road to the Cabin in The Woods on Rainbow Creek.....Home, sweet Home.

MOM and I  made it Home Okay

What a Sunset!

What a Tornado!

...this is the Little King signing off from Rainbow Creek. Goodnight!

If you are interested in the rest of the photos of this photoshoot, contact me at:   katescabin@gmail.com (I have 100 or so).

My work is copyrighted.  I give you all permission to share this column with everyone.  No one has permission to sell my work except me.  Thank you,  brendasue

Here is a Christmas DVD mini video of the Tornado.  Enjoy

O+O

"She's A Space Cowgirl" (Bet You're Not Ready For That!) by: brendasue

Saturday Night Special

Hey Everybody:  Look at The Bird I Shot This Past Saturday Night!

Now I Know there are some of you Whippersnappers out there that might just think 'ole' Granny is a dingbat, and you would be correct; However, THIS 'ole' Granny can still shoot the head plum off of a poisonous cottonmouth snake in the Lake and snag his sinking body with a treble hook at the end of a pole to retrieve it to feed my Hawks.

That may be shocking to you Nature Lovers that I would want to harm any living creature of Earth.  I am forced to admit that I love and respect all life except the poisonous Snakes.  This kind of snake would kill me (or my children, pets and birds)  just because we are here on the Earth.

My Hawks and Buzards could kill me (they easily rip up meat) but they do not want to harm me.

My bees could sting me to death, but they do not want to harm me and I allow hundreds to crawl on me while I fill up their sugar water plates.

But a Snake?  Trust me, these water cottonmouths only want to kill me because I am in the same spot they are at the same time. These are very aggressive snakes and will chase after and crawl into boats to get you should you come across a swirling  breeding mass of these

very deadly snakes in the water.  In fact, inch for inch (or foot for foot), I would give the winning edge to the Cottonmouth over the Diamondback Rattler as it is one mean snake. The largest one I have killed around here was over 8 feet, but there are some places where they get over 20 feet like the Texas Rattlers.

I am not mad at The Military for their choice.  As this is a World Class, I can not give out any secrets (like anyone would tell me a secret!). Anyway, it is quite common knowledge to everyone about the new 'Earth Friendly' Weapons being tested now in Texas.

I apologize in advance to the people we are in conflict with, but I am in favor of the Weapon Grade Rattlesnakes being gathered now to drop from planes onto the mountains where they hide in caves in hot parts of the Earth. They have Rattlesnake Roundups in the hill country of Texas as those snakes love the hot desert conditions. Even if they maybe got the idea from the movie, Snakes on a Plane, it is a good idea and extremely cost effective. At the end of the day, the enemy is eliminated and there is no harm to the earth. The bonus is the caves will likely remain secure for as long as the snakes thrive, no one would want to go in those caves anymore.  I think I saw it somewhere that dropping them out in styrofoam containers that break open on impact does not kill the snakes.

In my opinion, they could consider collecting the cottonmouth snakes also as we have just too many around here.

Well, I sure did not mean to ramble on, rather just wanted to point out that if I can still shoot the heads off of these snakes, I can shoot any bird in the sky with my camera and I do.

Welcome Class. Let's get back to the Nature of Living Things and away from the Human Nature of Killing Snakes. We are going down to Rainbow Creek today as I have a surprise for you.

It seems there is someone here who feels their rights have been violated because they have not been asked to open our Class.

Here off the pier of Rainbow Creek is one of my fish friends.  He wasa little baby catfish I gave fish chow from the pier. Most of them grow up and swim off to the big lake.  This one just never left. (Or if he does swim to the lake, he comes back for chow or just to hang out).

His name is Channel Cat #5. ( I call him: C. C. Floater)

He likes to float around when he sees me down here at the Creek.

Let The Class Begin!

Hi Everybody. I am C C of Rainbow Creek.

(Yes he is under water and does not get out of the water.)

Our short Photostudy today is of this bird.

I have always called them country road scissortails, (in my back-woods identification), as I have only seen them on country roads, never at backyard feeders or in the cities.

The correct name for this bird is:  Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher.

They are summer residents in this part of S. Texas and spend winter from Mexico to Panama.

I love to watch these birds either perched on a wire or in graceful flight.

Mark and Jeff are much better 'On the Road Photographers'.

I nearly got run over by a truck as I was too busy enjoying the sight of these birds!

I originally thought this bird sitting with the scissor one was a Western Kingbird.

(After reading the Identification book), I learned this is a young scissor-tailed Flycatcher, which resembles a W. Kingbird. (the breast is whiter and toward the tail).

They get the long scissortail as they get older.

I did arrive at my best friends house and shared a wonderfully prepared meal with her family.

After dinner, we walked the treeline of their place looking at her birds and Sunset.

I was able to catch her Eastern (orange throat)  Bluebird with a bug for baby.

The sun was setting behind the tall trees.

I realized how nice it really is to be with friends just walking, talking and watching the sun set.

I wish this Peace and Joy for all Humans on Earth.

Time to just be content and  feel the company of friends and family.

Time to slow down and feel what is Important in Life.

We got a glimpse of the Sun and someone's chimney in the break in the tree line.

My BFF and I share the same birthday month, so I told her I saw a horoscope that said we are in for a great week.  Something about the new position of the planets and our moon is in another house

And, the sun is shining. (which is good because if the sun is ever not there in the sky shining, it really will not matter what we had planned for the rest of that day. All life on Earth would come to an End.

If anything at all were to survive, it would be the written word and photographs of how we lived on Earth.

I hope we all have many sunny days with our Sun, which is really a Star.

I hope there are more of Us that want to save and cherish the Earth and Life

than there are Those who want to the destroy Earth and all Life.

Do you see the two little white dots to the lower right of the sun in the above photo?

I can tell you the Sun does not drop off little dots of light.

I can tell you that is not dirt on the camera lens.

I can tell you a camera (that I use) is only capable of recording what it sees in a moment of time, but it does record all information in that frame whether we can see it all or not.

I can tell you those 2 dots are very far away and they are not stars.

What I cannot tell you is what it is. (It would take a better camera than what I am using.)

In my opinion, my camera has recorded something reflecting Light from the Sun. (And of course this is not the only photo I have showing recorded bits of light.)

In your opinion, I may be a space cadet or blonde.

I am entitled to my opinion and likewise, you are entitled to Yours.

The one good thing about being human is we all have plenty of opinions.

I do not believe birds or any other life on earth has an opinion. (maybe cats).

Anyway, something to think about.

Maybe we can come together as people and figure out what is in the sky and in the oceans.

And this, my friends, is my Lucky Star!

Star of Wonder, Star of Bright,

First Star I see Tonight,

I wish I may, I wish I might,

Have the Wish I Wish Tonight.....

...........this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek

katescabin@gmail.com

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