Memories of Duck and Cover

Looming Mushroom Cloud

Mushroom cloud

Photos can inspire, entertain, tell stories and evoke memories. Saturday our sky was filled with dramatic cloud formations in 360 panoramas as if we were aiming in a big bowl of cloud soup. It was more like a tropical sky than a Winter Bay sky in winter.  Pulling into the parking lot at grocery store my husband ask me to be sure in get the Mushroom cloud over the Berkeley Hills.That led to a discussion of what it was like to grow up under the threat of nuclear inflation.How my mom would get me up early and sit me in front of the TV with my Post Toasties to watch an Atomic Bomb test.   Then later in October 1962  in Northern Oklahoma hearing the Jets fly over going from Nebraska to Florida during the Cuban missile Crisis.

Any one else have memories of the Atomic era?

Let me know what you think.

For Sally’s Lens and Pens

View other entries for this week’s challenge:

https://sustainabilitea.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/phoneography-and-non-slr-digital-devices-photo-challenge-nature-winter-splendor/

https://patchworkponderings.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/phoneography-challenge-nature-frozen-mist/

https://chasinglifeandfindingdreams.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/the-perception-of-reinvention/