I’d share my drawings with you, but I’m not sure my scanner works. I think I’m making a teeny bit of progress, but I’m not anywhere close to my goal of being able to draw human faces, bodies in motion, and other living objects to my satisfaction. I’ve been working on thumbs for weeks.
But whaddya know? The city’s recreation department has decided to offer a six-week free-hand drawing class starting February 4, and I intend to take it. I’m trying to persuade my bro Dave to take it as well. It’s for brush-up folks as well as beginners.
(That’s not me…)
Another cloudy day. I decided to find out how much water is in clouds and was shocked to learn that we don’t really know how raindrops manage to land on earth. I thought even farmers knew how much water was up there whether it was raining or not, but this geology professor says that’s not so.
He says the average “cloud droplet” (a raindrop in the making) is less than 0.02 millimeters in diameter and would need 48 hours to fall from the cloud to earth. By then it would evaporate. Some scientists think that the drops bump into each other and form larger drops on their way down. Others think that the ice that forms on top of a rain cloud in a huge ice crystal melts to make rain. This is pretty technical, but here’s the explanation.
And all this time I thought we knew what causes the rain to fall from the clouds.
