About This Blog ~ This blog is about a series of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) super-hero, sci-fi, fantasy adventure novels called Rainbow Arc of Fire. The main characters are imbued with extraordinary abilities. Their exploits are both varied and exciting, from a GLBT and a human perspective. You can follow Greg, Paul, Marina, Joan, William, and Joseph, as well as several others along the way, as they battle extraordinary foes or take on environmental threats all around the globe and even in outer space. You can access synopses of the ten books using the individual links on the upper, left-hand column.





The more recent posts are about events or issues that either are mentioned in one or more books in the series or at least influenced the writing of the series.










Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Summer 1978 Thunderstorm over the Academy

As you can tell from several photographs I took that summer, the film I used and/or the f-stop I utilized contributed to tinted, almost sepia, colors.
 
Regardless, these two still showed how powerful and dramatic thunderstorms could be over the Academy grounds.
 
I definitely reached back into this first summer at the Academy, and perhaps these photographs, when I wrote some of the passages in Chapter Twenty-one for RAoF:  A Mile-High Saga:
 
"The hills roll massively upward at a slow grade until, finally, Rampart Range rides straight up to the sky.  One can almost hear the ancient, volcanic eruptions that pushed these heights up through the Earth's crust to where they now reside, triumphant.
 
"Yet the stillness of an airless moon envelops this entire locale.  Dark clouds can mass silently behind this protective range until the heady gray formations push themselves over the tops of the various peaks, and a thunderstorm, fully unfurled, rages on an otherwise peaceable summer's afternoon."




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