Why, YES….IT…DOES.
The other evening a Spring Kansas storm was brewing.
Dark, ominous grey clouds lurked at the horizon before thinning and blowing up and over the Downtown water tower, heading North to Nebraska.
Thunder had announced the weather for over an hour. Rumbling rather quietly but growing in length.
Then the conductor of this musical storm arrived.
The wind. The wonderfully strong Kansas wind.
As most photographers do {and I’m no different} when these beautiful Kansas storms arrive we think:
“Why don’t I shoot the lightning?”
The “stupidity factor” is involved. Walking out into an open field and doing this is not a risk I take lightly. So how swell that I could setup on my back deck and shoot with a remote cable.
How convenient.
So I went about latching my Nikon D7000 to the tripod and hanging a protective nylon sleeve over the lens to protect it from the rain that hadn’t started yet.
As I was looking for my remote cable I found my self humming and thinking about the old adage:
“Lighting Never Strikes [in the same place] Twice”.
But this time I was thinking more about how that saying is applied to finding love in life. And how it’s rare for love to find us twice in a lifetime.
My love life is my love life and I won’t be sharing those details here. Not because those details lack in richness. It’s because these posts find their way across cyber space and I’m not keen on my past falling into the hands of who knows whom.
I will say that I’ve been fortunate. Very fortunate in the love universe.
Suffice it to say I’ve been “bolted” twice. And even though they both left this world entirely too soon I still think of them like they’re still here.
I also found myself wondering if these evenings full of lightning might be those two paying me a little visit.
Just a thought.
And if that is true I was lucky that I was patient. They both decided to stop by.
So I say:
“Thank you two for loving me in life and now from the sky. Proving that lightning does strike twice”.
Oh. And can you make it a little louder next time?
And I love you too.
Looky.
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