The fog creeps in on little cat feet
More thick fog this morning. Heaps of snow all over and supposed to get up to 50 today. The creeping weather front is playing hell with my sinuses but I still love fog.
From the front step, looking across the street.
From the driveway, looking down the street. The last car visible is 2 houses away.
In the backyard on the deck, looking across at the neighbor’s backyard.
From the backyard deck, looking down the cul-de-sac behind the house.
The fog creeps in on little cat feet.
It sits on silent haunches,
Looking over harbor and city,
And then moves on.
-Carl Sandburg
And apparently Stephen King was wrong in calling his novella “The Mist.” Mist is not as dense as fog. The phenomenon he was illustrating was extremely dense. But John Carpenter already used “The Fog” so maybe he thought it better to not seem like he was copying. If you haven’t read “The Mist” I’d recommend it. The movie is not too bad for a Stephen King adaptation, but obviously not as good as the book. You can find it in audio format done like an old radio play as well. They call it “3-D sound” but it just seems like a fairly well done radio play to me. Personally, of the three formats, I’d put the audio format on the end of my list. It’s well done, but didn’t match my expectations of voices and such as well as the movie did. I have it somewhere and I’d upload it for you guys, but I figure messing with the big boys copyrights and stuff may get found by a bot searching for pirated shit. I have little clue how they find things like that, but I don’t want to be a test case or anything.
I don’t read Stephen King much, mostly because I like to sleep. McGoo did comment that King needs some techie proofreader, though. Quoth McGoo:
I’ll never forgive him for the line in Tommyknockers where a character is electrocuted as, “ten thousand volts of amps coursed through his body”. Boo….
Or (I can’t remember where it occurred) when he has a character replace the spent clip in a revolver.
And your neighborhood has a feel of Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, only with snow :D
Looks like my street this morning – except we haven’t any snow. The fog is serious here, though.
Neato. All creepy and shit. I love King.
Isn’t the fog crazy!!!?? Have you ever heard that the number of foggy mornings in August is equivalent to the anticipated number of snow days for the coming winter…… so what does it mean when it fogs in the winter?!
beautiful photographs Nicole
I hadn’t heard that, Carrie. That’s an interesting tidbit. Not sure what it means when there is winter fog. Number of days over 100 in the summer maybe? :) And thanks for dropping by. I love your cooking blog. :)
Thanks to everyone who is dropping in lately. Makes me feel like I’m not all alone in the wild web. :)
Ooooh! I LOVE that atmo. I’d put on a cape and go skulking.
I love fog. I love dark weather generally. Always interesting to see pics of where people live so thanks for those :)
I like foggy weather so much, I have my own fog machine. ;-)
I love it, too. But after 4 straight days of it, I’m looking forward to rain tomorrow.