Another Kasatochi Sunset, Dense Fog and Fogbow

Another brilliant sunset last night, I'll never grow old of seeing a sky with a fiery glow to it. Evidently, this may be a regular thing for a period of time according to the experts.

I was up bright and early for the dense fog and finally saw the elusive fogbow. I was driving south on a county road and thought I saw something faint to the west so I snapped a quick picture and sure enough! Darin ended up being out taking pictures too and got some sweet fogbow pictures as well...we were at the exact location at the exact time (for a few minutes) and somehow didn't see each other. What's funny about that, is that it was Douglas County Lake...neither of us have talked or been to but a few times. I didn't see any steam hoses, but Mike did again...I'm really eager to see some of these...someday!

Some pictures below of Fogfest 2008 in northeast Kansas. I'm ready for a decent fall setup to chase soon, maybe even a cold-core setup later on that won't bust!











I'm almost done with the trailer for the double DVD production of ours that should be ready by mid October.

Sunflower Pictures, Sunrise Pictures Part II, Parker/Castle Rock Colorado Tornado

My sister, Brianne, lives in Parker Colorado with her daughter and husband and didn't have any desire to look out the window at a beautiful landspout/tornado less than a few miles from her home. This is the best video I can find so far of it:



My sister is no stranger to tornadoes, while Darin and I were chasing on 11/27/2005 near Marion, Kansas, she was headed back to Lawrence from Thanksgiving in Garden City and called me to tell me a tornado was coming down right on top of her! She also saw a rope tornado when I picked her up and gave her no choice but to ride with me in 1995...and several landspouts outside of GCK in 1991 a couple of years after we first moved there!

Here are some more photos from earlier this morning near Tonganoxie Kansas and Lawrence Kansas. The rest are from a beautiful sunrise near Lake Olathe and some sort of bagworm that make thousands of spiderweb-looking nests in trees everywhere. They were moving around quite a bit which made it hard to get a good photograph of them motionless...