Early training tells. “Tells what?” you might wonder. Tells me it’s not necessary to buy rain gear.
I didn’t need it for my decades in Alberta.
I shouldn’t need it anywhere else.
It’s an unreasonable position, for sure, but it’s mine. I have a workable umbrella or three, an adequate jacket-mit-hood, and hopeless footwear. In this season of unseasonable rain, that’s the bad news.
The good news is that rain offers me new vistas: in this case, drops and droplets gracing the hood of our Kia.
“I have a workable umbrella or three, an adequate jacket-mit-hood, and hopeless footwear” Now that’s funny because it’s a description of my “transitional weather” outfitting, too. I think the seasons change fast enough that I don’t have enough time to become sufficiently annoyed with my garb to take the time, trouble, and money to fill in the gaps. I use the ‘brollies’ rarely because the hood and waterproof jacket are sufficient. The switch to unavoidably winter wear came today after a couple of days when the jacket was uncomfortably warm for driving. Ka-Boom. Snow. Dropping temperatures. Ice. Wind. Sometime in April (hold that thought), this topic will rise again!
Laurna – Sniff. We have steady snow here today, so I also expect that will be it in these parts until April. Of course, Ottawa sometimes gets freezing rain, an abomination unknown to me growing up.
Looks like what a drone would see during the Stone Age…
Barbara – 🙂 I cranked the contrast (you probably already know that) and it really made the drops 3-D.
That’s quite a striking picture.
Tom
Tom – Many thanks. I’ll tell the Big Guy you approve of the delay to our departure that it created.
The picture tells me that you keep your Kia waxed and polished (or, at least, someone in your household does) because those droplets and runoff tracks won’t happen on a dirty car. Dirt particles somehow destroy the surface tension of water droplets, and lets them blend together. I’m sure there’s a lesson in there somewhere, but can’t think what it might be.
Jim T
Jim – I think it’s Someone (Else) who gets the credit. Shiny surfaces are also loads better for reflections, which is important. 🙂
I echo Tom Watson; that’s a neat picture. ‘Seeing’ for photography is a really interesting phenomenon. And very individualistic. We have trouble when Cathal tries to point out a good picture for me. I’ve thanked him kindly but asked him not to bother.
Mary – For sure it’s an interesting phenomenon. I sometimes see stuff (like a quality of the light) that I haven’t yet figured out how to translate into a photo. When we were still doing tourist trips, the Big Guy once plaintively asked if I was going to take any pictures “that looked like the place.” I replied that they all did and he started carrying his own camera.
Isabel – I echo Jim Taylor’s comments on the great wax job! You see an artistic picture, I see a great wax job. Further proof that the credit goes to that other “someone”, with respect to the wax job.
John – 🙂 I think the wax is applied by car-wash machinery, but the discipline to subject the car to this machinery definitely rests with Someone Else.