sunset and adventures

[asakiyume]

I went out to get some coriander seeds from the garden, only the sky was doing this:



and this



It was very exciting.

Another thing that was exciting was yesterday, at the airport. I had to pick up wakanomori but there were some problems. Customs and immigration were in a bad mood because there was a huge backlog and pileup of people because of a bunch of planes being rerouted because of thunderstorms, and so they were detaining bunches of people, including him! He got off one text message to me that said, "In customs limbo. It may be a LONG time," but then they said they'd confiscate people's phones if people used them.

"Like school," remarked the healing angel when we were all back together again at midnight, three hours after people first disembarked from the plane Waka was on.

Admittedly, even without detention, it was taking forever for people to make it through. International arrivals was full of folks waiting for loved ones. Here are some impressionistic cell-phone photos.


waiting with flowers
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standing on a chair for a better view


One family who waited nearly as long as we did asked the healing angel to take a picture of them when they were reunited:



We ended up walking through most of the airport terminals on our way out, and so we saw all the metal cots that the airport had set up for people who were stranded there--it looked like an evacuation center. We talked to one mother, traveling with two small children, who was given just one cot. There's no plane for her for two days, and no hotel rooms open near the airport, and she doesn't know anyone in the city. A friend is driving up tomorrow from New Jersey to rescue her, she said.

We were happy to be able to sleep in our own beds, even if we didn't make it home until 2 am.

Comments

[stormdog.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful sky!

And I really feel for the people stuck in the airport. I get stressy enough with travelling even when I have all my stuff with me and am somewhere with a bed I can use!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I feel for them too--no fun! (Well, maybe a *little* fun--if you're a kid. But not if you're a parent, or anyone else. And even for the kids, I'm betting the fun wears off)

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Fabulous sky!

Nine

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It was spectacular.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I think you could call that sky 'lowering'.

A piccie of someone taking a piccie of someone! :o)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I thought a lowering sky had to be more threatening? This one seemed positively uplifting!

A piccie of someone taking a piccie of someone! --Now the question is, was anyone photographing me photographing him taking the photo?

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Ugh! BTDT. Some airports are better than others, but there's nothing like finally getting home to sleep in your own bed.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and Logan is *not* a very pleasant airport :-\

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

You have Maxfield Parrish skies! I'm sorry it's such a palaver to fly through them.

[core-opsis.livejournal.com]

I never understood Maxfield Parrish until I went to northern New England, and yes, then--most stunning skies.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I do love it when they're Maxfield Parrish-y like this, all glowing and radiant!

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

If there's one nice thing about storms, they deliver awesome sunsets when they leave.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

They surely do.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Those sunset clouds are lovely - and the color came out so clear and brilliant in the photo, too.

Why were they confiscating phones? o.O That seems a little draconian.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I don't know why! Waka thinks they just like throwing their weight around, but maybe they had a valid reason.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

those sky pix are astonishing!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You can see why I had to run back in and get my camera!

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Wonderful sky pics !

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The sky was most obliging yesterday evening :-)

[core-opsis.livejournal.com]

Most gorgeous sunsets! We actually pulled off the highway to take sunset pictures yesterday, but they weren't as dramatic as this.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I still like that you pulled off. And at some point, you also created roadside music, and THAT is cool.

[core-opsis.livejournal.com]

It seems like we're usually in too much of a hurry, but I think it's important.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

What beautiful clouds!

How sad to be stuck in the airport.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

They were quite marvelous clouds.

[avalonestel.livejournal.com]

First, those clouds are gorgeous, and it's cool that you managed to capture them in a photo! I always have trouble catching them well. Second, I'm so sorry that you had to wait so long for Wakanomori, but I'm glad he made it safely and you guys made it home. Third, is that the healing angel to the left in the last photo!? He's gotten so tall!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That is indeed the healing angel, and yes he has!

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

That sky is much better than the airport wait. In fact, that sky is downright, nay upright (HEHE. playing on your "uplifting" above :P) awesome.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

"upright uplifting"--I like it!