Fire as Earth as Air as Water

Empedocles, a Greek philosopher who came before Socrates, said that all of earth's substances were part of four basic elements, air, fire, water, and earth. These became the four classical elements of Greek philosophy and were also adopted by Plato. Yesterday as I looked outside it appeared as if the four were trying to combine into one element. The 110+ temps of the previous day mixing with precipitation and atmospherics draw up the dust. Then the sky-dirt unites with the moisture above, again, and you end up with a cycle and specks of dust drops on everything like rain.




I figured out how to dust off the pictures with my computer but they were usually more interesting with the dust and grainy after being fixed. This one, with the girl looking out the window benefits from the adjustment.