Skywatch Friday Day in March

Well it's finally skyworthy around here. I've been out of pocket with skywatch because the sky in the winter for the most part is steel gray, day in and day out. We get peeks at the sun sometimes but it's such a shock I forget to grab my camera. This sky reminded me again of how magnificent it is the rest of the year.

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SkyWatch Winter

In all honesty I didn't expect much from the winter skies in that it's grey so much of the time, so I'll take what I can get when I can get it!! After a heavy 10" snowfall we had this pretty blue sky day before yesterday and in the second photo (you can click on it and see it's larger version) you'll see Mourning Doves in the trees. They roost outside my office window in the winter and on the very coldest days I notice. Some days the tree is loaded with birds just puffed out trying to stay warm.

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SkyWatch Friday "Patterns"

You need to double click on this one to get the full effect of the light.

This week was one great week for skywatching. The clouds had all kinds of patterns going on and hardly a day went by that I didn't see something exciting. I didn't always have a camera along to capture what I saw. You'd think I'd learn. All of the next three were from last Sat. The center one was in the afternoon and was a lot more impressive in person. The other two were from that evening right over our house.

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Sky Palette

While having a delightful discussion with my two favorite artists and their manager last evening, I was treated to the most beautiful and interesting art in the sky. The clouds formed stripes and dashes that let in light in the same manner. It's much more impressive in larger photos.

This beautiful scene came between two strong storm systems that dumped more rain than we really need. We've been very fortunate in this area to not flood at this point.

Sky Watching

I spent a quiet Saturday afternoon on a project in my loft studio. I wasn't paying any attention to the outdoors when I suddenly felt I should turn my head and look. The bright beautiful sunny day had turned into what you see above. I grabbed my camera of course and then looked to see what the weather forecast was. Severe storm headed our way. Hail, 60-70 mph winds and rain.

The clouds were just too interesting to ignore!

Within minutes the winds arrived and the waves picked up. Rain pelted the windows. Strangely though the birds kept coming to the feeder. I saw several red winged blackbirds land and fly off.



These two came for an early dinner when the winds calmed down a little but it was still raining pretty good.



When things got quiet I went off to start our dinner when I noticed this. It looked a bit frightening but I didn't see any cows or semis flying through the air and after a few photos decided it was not as it seemed.

The next interesting cloud formation was this cotton ball looking sky.

Nothing beats a good sunset!!