I haven't been posting much on Skywatch Friday lately, but this single meme has changed the way I look at the sky--and increased exponentially the amount of time I spend paying attention to what's going on above me. I couldn't possibly be more enthusiastic about the team and its efforts--thanks, as always.A couple of weeks ago, when the weather was rather "interesting" (read nasty and brutish), I looked out my window at a golden evening, with apricot-colored light glowing against a solid background of cloud. The cloud cover persisted for the next twenty four hours, but began to break up just as it started getting dark.
I love the bare branches of trees against the sky anyway, but the changes from evening to evening are worth watching.
The sun broke through enough for a sunset--albeit obscured somewhat by bare pecan trees.
The opening shot reminds me a (very) little of Caspar David Friedrich's paintings evoking the sublime, like this one, Abbey in an Oak Forest:
That's it for now; Thanksgiving breads are in the oven and I've got to keep an eye on them. My daughter's cooking this year, and all I have to do is make the dinner rolls. Talk about sublime!Images: all shots taken with my Nikon D80 on auto exposure. The Friedrich painting comes from Wikimedia Commons.
16 comments:
It is fascinating to look at the same scene in different lights. Lovely sequence!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Nice colours and photos, happy thanksgiving to you. Thanks for sharing:)
Marvelous sequence of shots! Wonderful colors!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Enjoy!
Sylvia
So many different colours. Great.
Sydney - City and Suburbs
good silhouettes of trees against the sky.
Eaglesbrother
I could sign under that first paragraph (well apart from not posting recently). That's the most fun thing in this meme - it makes you look up and see more.
Great series of photos, Happy skywatching. :)
Wonderful photos and I love the first photo the most.
Happy Thanksgiving
Great sequence of photos, which I prefer to the painting!
Different colors. Beautiful series.
Yes, the meme does make one more aware. I find myself anticipating the canges in the sky, will the clouds grow or dissipate. Will it be a blue sky day or will the farmers burn the rice fields putting a pall over the valley, obsucring my view of the coast range?
I hope you have had a wonderful day. I have missed your thoughtful essays of late but then, your students deserve your attention so I shant complain.
it's always interesting to see different sunsets everyday. glad you were able to capture them :)
I too like the bare branches. they evoke mystery and poetry. MB
Candace: What a neat series and the painting is special. Loved all your sky colors.
I often have trees or limbs in my sky photos and you are right if one does a few SkyWatch Fridays you do look at the sky more often and in a different manner
Nice shots - and painting, too.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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