Slow Down!

July 1st Thunderhead in the valley

Photograph © Bruce A. Morrison

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July 1st...wow, what ever happened to June!??  Things really have to slow down here, I'm just way too far behind in my work!

I couldn't resist posting another thunderhead off over the valley here...this one is fresh off the camera, just 45 minutes ago!  Things develop, change and move on all the time in nature...shouldn't expect anything different here!

I've been painting and framing and printing like a maniac in the studio the past few weeks...getting ready for a solo exhibit at Arts on Grand (Spencer, Iowa) in August.  I'll fill in more details in the weeks ahead...but I'll say it right now and again with each post - I sure would love to see ya there in August; I haven't met some of my blog friends yet!  Wouldn't that be great! 

In the meantime - enjoy every bit of July you can...time is not waiting for us!

Our "Mountains"

Anviled Thunderhead in the Valley

Photograph © Bruce A. Morrison

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I get to feeling like a broken record around here in the spring, summer and fall.  The view here is very nice, but add the drama of the morning or evening skies and it can be quite amazing!

I've been working on some landscape photography and painting ideas the past couple weeks in the "neighborhood", and was processing several of the image files I'd taken yesterday afternoon and evening.  Georgie had alerted me to the cloud formations forming out across the road, so I took periodic trips out to the pasture and took some photographs...about every time I'd head back into the studio for more work, I'd look out the window and everything had changed and needed shooting again!  Its hard getting anything done here in the summer, especially in the late afternoon!

This thunderstorm (which I guess was actually in northern Kossuth County and into Minnesota) eventually "anviled" out and was very dramatic across the valley, with a blue sky backdrop and the evening sun lighting its facade!

I do say it a lot, but I'm gong to say it again...the clouds are our mountains out here on the prairie, and they are beautiful and awesome!

 

Great Stage

The best place around here to watch amazing things unfurl is right here at Prairie Hill Farm. This gives me so much fodder for images...whether they be as photographs or painting ideas.

Late this afternoon we had two storm systems sandwich us...we were fortunate they both missed as the one pictured here had a tornado embedded in it. The tornado was about 7-8 miles east of us so we couldn't see it on the other side of the storm that spawned it.


This is an amazing time of the year, but a time to respect and watch in awe as that great stage is opened for all to see!


Here's to spring on the Tallgrass!