“The Snow Is Also” by David Hoadley
Sarah’s Dad is a renaissance man. He read my little winter poem and responded in the comments:
The Snow Is Also
The snow is also blanket to the seed,
out of sight but waiting to be born.
As is the name upon a stone,
no longer close but never far,
beneath the snow,
in each of us.
I took the liberty of titling it. Goals shortly.
By the way, David is also a painter. He painted the painting on the right behind him in this photo.
Spooky painting, I know.
He’s also one of the fathers of storm chasing. I’m serious. He even founded the first storm chasing magazine Storm Track. This is just a random sick drawing from the magazine.
He also took a photograph that was used for a stamp.
I could go on, but I won’t because I’m a little jealous. I think I need to make him a Wikipedia page.
One of your citations about me (New York Times) said I began storm chasing in 1965. It was 1956. Now that Roger Jensen (began in 1953) has passed on, I am left as the longest, living storm chaser in number of years –52 through 2009 (skipped 1966 to save annual leave for my honeymoon). Readers can learn more about this hobby from our web site (formerly the paper newsletter I started in 1977) at http://www.stormtrack.org.
The cartoon shown (not a “random sick drawing”) is from an article I wrote for the old paper copy, many years ago, that made fun of storm chasers who speed and take stupid risks to catch a storm. The driver, in this case, is waving casually (with mock control) at the skeptical passing trooper, who’s a lot smarter than the chaser thinks he is. Those interested can order a 20 year (disk) summary of old Storm Track paper copies, including many of my sketches, by going to our website.