dust in the wind

This post is not going to be about the futility of life or Kansas. I'm not even going to mention the content of Ecclesiaties. So DO NOT BE ALARMED.

Earlier this afternoon I experienced my first spring dust storm (my first real dust storm of any kind, for that matter). Just another joy of living in the Big Country of West Texas. Dust in your hair, dust in your eyes. Dust on the stairs and dust in the sky! Dust in your nose and inside your mouth. Dust in all shoes all over the south. (No laughing. Dust makes you a little crazy)

I just thought someone might like to see the dust since it's a little different from anything we see in the north. It was mostly cleared up by 5:00. There's still some dust around, but there's not nearly as much as there was. I took pictures. : )





I took this picture around 5:10 or so. It's actually the after picture, but I put it first so you'd know kind of what it looks like normally. This is the Tower of Light (the big tower-looking thing in the middle) and the Sowell Rotunda of the Bible building (the white dome'ish' thing) as seen from the roof of my building. Ssshhhhhh...











This picture was taken around 2:15. It stayed like this for most of the remaining three hours of the storm. I'm not sure exactly when this all started, but it had be going on for awhile when I went to class at one thirty. You can barely see the Tower of Light in this picture. Pretty crazy.





Just thought I'd share that with y'all because I was excited. Sorry to talk about the weather. Congratulations on going to school where there are no dust storms...