Extreme lightening

I'm once again joining Chris of Pear Shaped Crafting, our host this month at Art Journal Journey with her theme Hold the Line.

You can tell how I got the title of this post. 

I was gifted with this old 2015 calendar and saw how the lightening looked like lines across the sky.

I did a LOT of sewing on this page.

I rotated the page so you can see the title I added as an afterthought.

Somehow I thought I had fixed my scanner, which is why I decided to scan this rather than photograph it.  Sadly, that is not the case, as you can see from the lighter line along the right side of the scan.

One thing I learned was there are many different types of lightening.

 

For example, the upper left is cloud to ground lightening.  There's also a bit of cloud to cloud in the background of that image, too.  The small image sewn into the larger image to the right is ground to cloud lightening.  The lightening in the larger image is called dry lightening.  It occurs even when there is no rain involved.  It also exhibits traits of smooth channel lightening, a type of cloud to ground lightening that has no visible branching.

 

The long slice with the small photo is a cloud to ground lightening that was so powerful it started the fire on the ground, and the small photo sewed in the larger is staccato lightening which often appears as a single flash that is very bright in the night sky.  Occasionally the tendrils will be visible, as in the photo.

 

I hope you learned something about lightening other than to NOT take a shower or wash dishes during a lightening storm.  I appreciate you stopping by today.  Please also join Bleubeard and me at Art Journal Journey with your own take on Holding the line.