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Awesome cloud formations. But what was the deal with the horizontal rainbow effect on the one?
 
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Reality is now truly in the eye of the Photoshop holder?
 
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NO, NO, NO! These are really unretouched photos of natural atmospheric phenomena. The 'hangy-downy' clouds ar called "mammatus", and the other is a "fire rainbow".
The URL for the latter is http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/firerainbow.asp
 
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Braling's "rainbow clouds" remind me of a photo I captured of our "two young scruffs" while we were tavelling a back country road (that is really all we have up here!). It was just before sunset. We had already had a very full day and energy levels were questionable, at best. (Think: boys 10 and 8, riding in a car an hour from home and maybe a half hour past a snack that Dad should have supplied - oops!)

Needless to say, having them secured next to one another was not the best senario for all involved. Wildcats in seatbelts, maybe. Then it started to rain hard.

Fifteen minutes down the road, the rain stops and the sun breaks through. So, the sun is setting in the West and the dark clouds are breaking up all around us. A rainbow arches across the Eastern sky. I stop the car, camera in hand, and the boys, ready to really go at one another now that they have been unleashed, hop into a big freshly mowed field to take a look at the colors.

I get them to turn to face me, and for a brief moment they actually wrap their arms across one another's shoulder -- and smile! Click.

The picture shows a full rainbow in the background framing the two best friends. Nice.

(The picture brightens my desk at school. An RB moment, I think.)
 
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Uh, ya gonna post that picture, Butch?
 
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I wish I had the techno-savvy!
 
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Frank, have you a scanner? I, too, was all thumbs, but look at me now as I am scanning and posting photos almost to the chagrin of the other posters.

But if you have a scanner and they are terribly inexpensive these days. Less than a $100.00 for a decent one. Let me know.

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Originally posted by biplane1:
Frank, have you a scanner?


I like when people say 'have you...'


"Live Forever!"
 
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B-Two, beautiful photos, the fire rainbow looks similiar to a sun-dog. Any relation?


She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist...

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I thought the same thing. I'll investigate...
 
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There is a forboding in this article (below). Biplane's post "Bradbury Sunset" may have a metaphoric significance. How many of Mr. Bradbury's wonderful stories will set quietly in the West because of social climes that allow this (and other such "concerns") to take root:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-06-26-recess-bans_x.htm

Sad! The scene from F451 movie comes to mind when Beatty finds the tiny book tucked beneath the child's blanket as the firemen are surveying the playground. He waves an authoritarian finger, negatively at the tot in the stroller..."Uh, uh, uh!"
 
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Frank, sad to say what is happening with the age of thought, or the process, of "growing up." To me it was suffering the occasional skinned knee from falling on the playground. And at Agazzis Elementary School it was dirt covered with pea gravel. Remember that? Growing up also included the once-in-a-while argument and fist fight.

If I remember correctly schools provided at a very nominal cost an insurance policy to cover accidents on the school grounds.

Banning tag? Common now, next they will be banning recess all together, or is it already gone?
 
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...although, Mr. B. revived for many of us some childhood horror, you'll recall in "The Playground"...
 
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Yes, Braling II, an excellent protrayal by William Shatner on the RBT some years ago. A rather frightening story and spooky in its content.
 
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Biplane 1 said:
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If I remember correctly schools provided at a very nominal cost an insurance policy to cover accidents on the school grounds.


Yeah...those were the good old days. Cost like five bucks a year or something, and even if your kid got hurt, the parents probably never tried for the insurance.
These things went the way of diving boards at motel swimming pools...and were replaced by security guards and pass-through metal detectors.
 
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