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Friday Slide Show: November Storm
14 November 2025
Our first November storm this year (one of those atmospheric rivers) announced itself with downpours in the middle of the night. We were hoping it would taper off before we left for the skilled nursing facility later in the morning.
And it did taper off. But then it rained again, something of a soft rain instead of a downpour. The wind advisory really didn't affect our location, coming out of the Southwest at just 8 mph.
We took few minutes to check for leaks around the place.
When we first moved here the skylight leaked, the dining room wall leaked, the spare room wall leaked, the spare room window leaked, the corner of the garage leaked, the side door leaked and the front steps leaked. And we cried.
A new roof took care of most of it and the painters the rest, although we still wrestle with the occasional mysterious leak. And the first time it really rains each year, we check all the old locations for failure.
But even the window leak (that required taking the large sliding pane out and recaulking it) has held up.
Our nerves, though, remain frayed.
As a distraction, we looked through the windows this morning, instead of at them.
We liked the distortions the wet side created. Could we photograph them?
We used Adobe Indigo primarily for the variety of focal lengths and shot through most of the windows upstairs. Then we went downstairs and took a few shots of the garden through the open studio door just for some contrast.
It was a fun project but apart from straightening things up a bit and cropping a very little, we didn't do much editing. Tone and color were left alone. We did open the shadows on one or two images to get a little more detail but that was it.
So we didn't have as much fun editing as shooting these images. In fact, the most fun we had was looking at them on the computer.
No leaks either.
