Storm

I scoffed at my Konfabulator's weather widget this morning, looking out at the clear skies, the wind slowly dying down... I thought there's no way we're going to have rain and 13 degrees!

Until about an hour ago.

The wind is seriously gale-force. Rattling the office windows, causing mini-blackouts and driving sheets of rain against the windows from out of a grey-black sky. Scary enough that some colleagues are looking at the windows with trepidation. Strong enough that the poor birds have no hope in landing on a fence or anything else for that matter.

This weekend I had to drive into the wind in the Landy. That took some doing! It's got all the aerodynamics of a block of flats. Fortunately homeward bound is with the wind, not against it. If my luck holds, I may not have to use the accelorator at all. :-) If my luck doesn't hold, I'm going to be blown over. Good thing I took off the roofrack and tent - could have been much worse.

Meantime though it's a very dark, very stormy day. Winter is back, and it's showing it's mean face.