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msfledermaus...I love this weather right now. Warm but not too warm. Dark and cloudy. Rainy on and off. Beautiful stuff. I look outside and keep thinking about the rainforest I went to in February, next to Mount Kilauea. That was definitely one of the most stunning and variable landscapes I'd ever seen--all that lushness graduating to sharp rock and sulpher and steam and down in stone torrents to the ocean with the sea fuming and boiling away...totally fantastic:)
Every once in a while I check the Mount Kilauea website and look at the camera on one of the vents. Nothing much is happening, but I can't help looking anyway. I just enjoy volcanos, apparently.
...Which makes me think of that little island near Yemen, where a different eruption's happened, and much less benign than the Hawaiian one...I feel a little guilty for liking volcanos at the moment, since it sounds like there were some fatalities. *looks a little ashamed* I'm not the sort of person that enjoys that sort of thing, I just like big forces of nature, sometimes. Maybe it's just feeling lucky about being near something huge and powerful that really doesn't give a crap about people, and going away safe with pictures and maybe a close-call story to tell your friends about. (I feel that way about Lake Superior too--It's this huge energetic force that seems to be well beyond humanity, even though it's a major shipping route.)
Now I get to go back to my quiet door post today, humming, "Born to Love Volcanos" by the Dead Milkmen for the rest of the day...
Every once in a while I check the Mount Kilauea website and look at the camera on one of the vents. Nothing much is happening, but I can't help looking anyway. I just enjoy volcanos, apparently.
...Which makes me think of that little island near Yemen, where a different eruption's happened, and much less benign than the Hawaiian one...I feel a little guilty for liking volcanos at the moment, since it sounds like there were some fatalities. *looks a little ashamed* I'm not the sort of person that enjoys that sort of thing, I just like big forces of nature, sometimes. Maybe it's just feeling lucky about being near something huge and powerful that really doesn't give a crap about people, and going away safe with pictures and maybe a close-call story to tell your friends about. (I feel that way about Lake Superior too--It's this huge energetic force that seems to be well beyond humanity, even though it's a major shipping route.)
Now I get to go back to my quiet door post today, humming, "Born to Love Volcanos" by the Dead Milkmen for the rest of the day...
