Showing posts with label SkyWatchFriday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SkyWatchFriday. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 October 2013

October Skies

All photos in this post are from the last ten days or so.
October so far has been mostly sunny.

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The first two shots were shot around 4 pm, directly against the sun, very low over the horizon that time of day now. 

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Actually it does not rise very high even at midday now:

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Some days, not a cloud to be seen in the sky:

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Other days, it’s the sun that goes into hiding:

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Sunset clouds from my balcony (6 pm on October 11th):

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And morning mist lifting the next day around 8:15
(as seen from my kitchen window):

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Friday Fences

Friday, 11 October 2013

Skywatch/Treewatch Friday

After a cloudy/rainy week, we had an amazing blue sky again today. And still some leaves left on the trees… :)

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Friday, 20 September 2013

FMTSO/Skywatch: Blowing in the Wind

Today I decided to do a “proper” Friday Shoot Out, i.e. take the camera out for a walk (on Friday afternoon), to see what I could find blowing in the wind.

The “problem” was, there wasn’t that much of a wind…

 

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Often it’s quite windy on my balcony, but today I could even sit out there reading for a while in the afternoon sun, just wearing jeans and short sleeves. Not bad for 20th September.

 

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Not much for the wind to blow on here! (Don’t ask me why ‘they’ cut everything off this tree. I have no idea. I only noticed it today as I was passing.) As you can see in the background, most trees are still green.

 

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They’ve added a sandbox to the playground since my last visit to this park. But the sand was not blowing about (and that blue carpet is still staying mysteriously put as well).

 

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Possibly a slight flutter of wind through my hair (?)

 

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One “Painted Lady” did indeed flutter about enjoying the flowers. But she hardly had to struggle against the wind.

 

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The rowan berries are red, but the leaves still green.

 

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Some of the maple trees have started to shift colour just a little…

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… but the few leaves dropped were lying rather tidily along the edge of the street. (I’m showing off my new shoes.)

 

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Well, finally I found something blowing in the wind!
(Flags belonging to the local electricity & cable company.)

Now I’m curious what others may have found…

Friday My Town Shoot Out – Blowing in the Wind

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Thursday, 8 August 2013

Skywatch Friday: Some Days Even the Sun Hesitates…

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Some days even the sun hesitates to get out of bed.

Listen to Mary Hopkin singing Tom Paxton’s
How Come the Sun (YouTube)

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Thursday, 1 August 2013

Sky Watch Friday: The Fire-Dragon

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On Monday night this week I saw this amazing sunset from my balcony. It looked rather like a fiery dragon!

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It made me go out on a late walk around the block to get some additional perspectives of it.

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Linking to SkyWatch Friday

Friday, 7 June 2013

Skywatch and FMTSO: Warmth

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All photos from the countryside near my town, today.
We’re having an incredibly beautiful early June, this far.

Friday My Town Shoot Out: Warmth

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Friday, 5 October 2012

Friday My Town – Skylines

“Do you see prairies,  sky scrapers or something in between when you view your skyline?”

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The panorama view above is from today – a skyline I get to look at quite often, walking to/from the supermarket.

The closest I come to seeing a ‘prairie’ would be the football field on one side of my building, I suppose – and maybe the tall chimney sticking up may count as sky-scraper?

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▲ Misty morning today when I set off out...

▼ Below is the view as I approached home again on my way back from the supermarket. (I chose to go round in a circle today, one way there, and another way back.)

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Having a chimney on the horizon might not seem like a lot of fun – but it can be! (a winter collage from 2010) ▼

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Another of my nearby skylines consists of the tall trees in an old cemetery:

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From my kitchen window, the skyline looks different depending on the time of year ▼

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In the winter, the view includes buildings that are hidden from me in the summer. Although I prefer the greens of summer … I also like it that I see farther in the winter! ▼

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▲ Winter sunrise and Moonrise ▼

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Friday My Town Shoot Out – Skylines

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Thursday, 17 November 2011

Sky Watch Friday: Short November Days

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▲ … And it was morning (8:25 a.m.) … ▲
▼ … And it was evening  (5:25 p.m.) … ▼

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Thursday, 21 July 2011

Skywatch Friday: Countryside Panorama

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From the countryside near where my dad lived.

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Friday, 1 July 2011

Friday My Town – Simplicity

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The FMTSO theme for this Friday, July 1st is Simplicity.

Okay, I went out of town rather than into town for these shots.
But the lake is within the borders of the municipality ;)

It’s also Skywatch Friday.

 

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