morning oddness

[lizziebelle]

I wanted to get this down before it leaves my mind completely. Further evidence that I live in the Twilight Zone...

The rising sun this morning was sending a column of light straight up. I've never seen anything like it before, and I wish I was able to pull over and take a picture, but I couldn't. It lasted until well after the sun had cleared the horizon. It was amazing, in all senses of the word.

I saw a couple of people in the middle of a corn-stubbled field, stacking what looked like branches. I glanced again as I passed them, and it looked like what they were stacking was geese. There were geese all around them, and I swear, I swear I saw one of them toss a goose with its wings outstretched onto the pile. This was while the sun was sending up that column of light. It was not a dream, nor was it a hallucination. I don't think. Keep in mind that this was at about 7:15 in the morning.

Weird.

People are giving me way too much information about their lives here at the office. I had one woman who wanted to see last week's paper for the real estate listings so she could see if her "son's father's girlfriend" had bought a house in her neighborhood. I know way too much about her and the alleged girlfriend now. Seriously, I wanted to beg her to stop.

Also, the coffee delivery guy's daughter will make a great divorce lawyer because, in his words, she's a cold-hearted bitch. And he's proud. Yeah.

If this day gets any weirder, I may have to lie down. *g*

Comments

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

o_O

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Pretty much my reaction.

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

Much weirdness!

Especially about the geese. Bizarre.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

It was like something you'd see in a dream. So strange.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That famous medieval profession, goose stacker, still being practiced today in western Massachusetts :-P

Seriously, maybe they were stacking geese to make a warm pile for you to collapse into when you'd had enough about cold-hearted bitch divorce lawyers and the living arrangements of people's son's girlfriend's parents.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

That must be it!

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

You do get vertical rays from the sun. The atmospheric phenomena website deals with the subject, of course. They call it a 'pillar' and class it under the halo group...

I've tried to post a link:-

http://www.polarimage.fi/

Dunno if it will work.

I saw one a couple of years ago while driving home one evening. They seem to be rarer than sundogs...

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was very cool, and a little eerie.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous:-)

[pjthompson]

I wonder if the geese died in the cold. :-(

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking. :(

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

What a bizarre morning! Pillars of light and dead geese being gathered up and stacked in a pile. It's all totally boring here in comparison.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

There's not usually that much excitement around here. ;)

[pjthompson]

Speaking of oddness on MA, I pointed this website out to another Massachusettan (Massachusetter?) and thought I should point you its way, too: mysterioushills.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Neat! Thanks!

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Was the rest of the day any tamer?

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Well, it was less strange, that's for sure!