weird sky at night, sailor's delight....

i have seen some weird skies in my life....living in the midwest we have lots of active weather with 

thunderstorms, tornados, hail and blizzards....

but this one was about the weirdest i have ever seen.

the sky was an orangish brown and encompassed the entire western skyline.  we had just had a threatening rainstorm that actually was not as bad as the weather men were predicting but i have never seen a sky like this in michigan.  it gave the entire area a very strange yellow glow.

this was the view out of my laundry room window, the only west facing window we have in the house.  the glow was so bright that i thought that the light was on in there.  

the storm brought a much needed cooler breeze that night.

 in the east, we were graced with a rainbow that was so big,
 i didn't have a lens wide enough to capture it all....

we woke up the next morning to this...

foggy site.  

it was really quite still and peaceful.  this is the road that leads out of our neighborhood.

the yard looked very ethereal too.

what are those large vines growing outside of the garden, you ask?

why, those would be don's pumpkin vines....encroaching into the neighbor's yard to the far right....

here is a closer view....

they also grow into our vegetable garden where we have tomatoes, raspberries, strawberries, tomatillos, rhubarb and more tomatoes.  we have a separate herb garden back behind there, where the pumpkins haven't quite invaded, but they are surrounding the bed and i expect a full scale attack to occur any day now.  don also planted tons of zinnias and sunflowers in the vegetable garden, so it's kind of a jungle in there.  but, that's how he likes it and we have about 6 or 7 pumpkins going....

i will do a post on the sunflower explosion we had this year very soon!

the night view....

  and the morning view...

what a view!!!!!  weird...

goodwill hunting.....

i scored this chair at the goodwill last fall for $4.99.  it reminded me of a kings throne 

(i don't know why, it just did)

it had a pleather dark green seat cover that was ripped 

and some structural issues.

but it had some really nice lines and some cool detailing on the back.

i sanded it down and filled the defects.  the hubster primed it with kilz spray paint...

and then sprayed it rustoleum aqua.

it was a little bright so i brought it down with a light coat of sepia glaze
made by mixing ralph lauren glaze with some brown acrylic paint. 

i found some fabric in the clearance bin at joann's fabric and recovered the seat.  when i removed the ugly green pleather cover, the padding was in good shape.  i threw it into the washer and ran it through a hand wash cycle and air dried it.

the glazing gave it a very subtle color that toned down the aqua really well.

i love the way it turned out.  and for five dollars,
what a bargain....

have a happy wednesday!!

today's post is brought to you by the color....

brown......

and now back to your regularly scheduled programming.....

this will be my last color of the week post.....i think i've run out of color choices.  can you think of any others??  maybe later in the summer i may do a rerun of cotw.