Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
As this gloomy day unfolds and the rains begin in earnest to fall more heavily, I am reminded of the evening this weekend when I awoke in the middle of the night and raised the accordion blind on one of the small windows in my bedroom to gaze at the moon overhead and the stars shining clearly in the distant skies above the beach and the sound to the south. Having viewed those heavenly bodies above and to the south, I also took note of what looked like some strange clouds out to the south that seemed to have tentacles hanging down from them and didn't appear to be moving too swiftly though, the breezes seemed to be jerking noisily at the awning outside of the larger bedroom window.
I took note of the time (1:04 a.m.) and decided to let some time pass and raise back up on my elbows to see if those clouds had moved off to the east as they seemingly should -- twenty minutes later and they didn't seem to have moved or changed shape at all so, I began to think it rather bizarre (if not impossible). My mind began to think they looked like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (or my four wisdom teeth coming back to haunt me and climb back into my mouth -- to cause me more pain). My thoughts also began to think of the "Rapture" (according to end times theorists) but, I figured the twins might be the only ones that would possibly be sucked into the ionosphere -- if not, then they should safely have me around to provide them food as usual (maybe not as much fish though -- due to the poor fishing here).
Then, finally. Reality and resonable thought had me looking more deeply beyond my poor night vision and at the front of the RV, I discovered the cloudy vision to be just the spindly, twisted trees in the campground that have this uplighting shining on them (metal-halide, quartz or low-pressure sodium light fixtures planted on the ground) and creating this eery look. Duh!
Everything is normal and my Florida fishing license is good until 12/21/2012 -- still enough time to catch some more fish before heading to Texas.
I took note of the time (1:04 a.m.) and decided to let some time pass and raise back up on my elbows to see if those clouds had moved off to the east as they seemingly should -- twenty minutes later and they didn't seem to have moved or changed shape at all so, I began to think it rather bizarre (if not impossible). My mind began to think they looked like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (or my four wisdom teeth coming back to haunt me and climb back into my mouth -- to cause me more pain). My thoughts also began to think of the "Rapture" (according to end times theorists) but, I figured the twins might be the only ones that would possibly be sucked into the ionosphere -- if not, then they should safely have me around to provide them food as usual (maybe not as much fish though -- due to the poor fishing here).
Then, finally. Reality and resonable thought had me looking more deeply beyond my poor night vision and at the front of the RV, I discovered the cloudy vision to be just the spindly, twisted trees in the campground that have this uplighting shining on them (metal-halide, quartz or low-pressure sodium light fixtures planted on the ground) and creating this eery look. Duh!
Everything is normal and my Florida fishing license is good until 12/21/2012 -- still enough time to catch some more fish before heading to Texas.
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