We've had so many heavy rains this month that everything is lush and green. We've gotten so that we don't look anywhere but up to find out about the weather. The clouds are subtle, deep, and beautiful. It's nice to look through the gaps in the leaves watch their rapid movement and the changing shapes. By mid-week, the thick cover gave way to this:
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You always have amazing pics. These are serene, spiritual, mystical, beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI have Chuck-love to give, so come over when you can *lovies*
There is just something really special about cloud formations. Nice branch framing on the 1st picture!
ReplyDeleteooopsie. i meant I gave you *humungo huggies ~n lotsa lovies* on my blog...but you should take my bling anyway *wink wink*
ReplyDeleteNice shots Sandy. Those clouds are amazing.
ReplyDeleteHi Sandy,
ReplyDeleteThose are some great clouds in the second photo--perfect for a sunset, which I hope you will let us view sometime.
Enjoy the weather and your photography. Thanks for your images!
Jim
Very nice photos. The sky is exceptionally beautiful in the second one.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the greenery is competing for the sky... a race to the sun. Awesome shots... very awesome. Great stuff, Sandy.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures almost got my head round and round... like on my bach on the eart, watching up against the sky.
ReplyDeleteNice weekend to you, from Anne in the middle of Norway.
Awesome clouds Sandy
ReplyDeleteThank you for being a BIG part of Sky Watch again this week, your post and comments and all your visiting of others are very much appreciated.
Tom ;O)
That first one has some mysterious figures in the sky.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely!
ReplyDeleteBeautyful as always!
ReplyDeleteWhat could be more beautiful than the blue of the sky through the greenery? Well - that dramatic layer of dark cloud above the white!
ReplyDeleteThese are really beautiful, especially those clouds!
ReplyDeleteBefore i 'discovered Sky Watch Friday, I never took much notive of clouds. but now i keep looking up at them - and i'm intrigued by the various forms and colours.
ReplyDelete/Katarina
The last one is awesome! Great clouds formations:)
ReplyDeletePetunia's SWF post
Peaceful and tranquil.
ReplyDeletepop and see mine from the back garden.
Beautiful skies. I think you must be experiencing similar weather to ours. Isn't it amzing how lush everything is when it was so dry and brown last year? Of courxe, it's only June yet. ;-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful frame around the sky on the first one.
ReplyDeletelove your writing and a geat shot thanks sandy, also for your vists,
ReplyDeletejoann
Beautiful pictures!
ReplyDeleteYou must have been to London - the cloud formations seem to be endless - really beautiful.
ReplyDeleteexcellent images, great sky watch.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots.
ReplyDeleteGreat and suitable title. ;)))
"Mind the gap" - good pun on the London Underground warning slogan! "Louis" particularly likes the second image.
ReplyDeleteFor Sky Watch over at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo, we have a dance between the moon and the fog at midnight.
Wow, just beautiful! :)
ReplyDeleteThese are so amazing Sandy i love it.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots Sandy!
ReplyDeleteWhat a differnce a few days makes.
What a contrast! Very nice :)
ReplyDeleteTime runs!! Great shots!
ReplyDeleteThat bottom photograph is especially beautiful! Sigh, I long for more than grey right now :) Both great images!
ReplyDeleteFantastic one! We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened... mine's up too hope you can drop by. Happy SWF!
ReplyDeleteThese are beautiful. We had some wonderful clouds tonight as we drove down I-84 and 691, too.
ReplyDeleteI really like the way the dark branches contrast and frame the sky. Aren't clouds so amazing the way they are always changing?
ReplyDeleteWow--I love those clouds! They are awesome.
ReplyDeleteAwesome photos! Always enjoy your posts!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful - you always have such a nice perspective!
ReplyDeleteStunning sky watch photos! Beautiful clouds!
ReplyDeleteSandy, the first photo looks like lacy black filagree against a blue sky! The second one with swirling clouds makes me think of swirling thoughts and lattes!
ReplyDeletetotally awesome skys!
ReplyDeleteWhat "Louis" wishes he could have captured in his image of the dance between the moon and the fog at midnight is that the wind was making the fog swirl very fast. The still shot just doesn't capture the motion. The swirling fog around the sodium vapor lights really made it look like a fire. It was a fantastic scene that "Louis" couldn't adequately capture.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that just gorgeous! Only God can do that! I love it!
ReplyDeleteSandy: How I love this shot of the variable Sky. I enjoy when the cloud shapes are all mixed in.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh! This looks surreal! Totally wonderful! It's like abstract art.
ReplyDeleteSpectacular sky! And the shot between the leaves is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI like both of these pictures, but that second one, wow!
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by my SWF. Your pictures are just so magnificent!
ReplyDeletethese are amazing! So beautifully captured... wow.
ReplyDeletethanks so much for visiting mine.
Happy SW :)
Oh my... you are sooooo amazing with your photos... so talented... beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThat second one is exquisite. It has been a good week for skies here too.
ReplyDeleteGreat cloud formation in the second one. I never get bored with watching clouds.
ReplyDeletevery nice sky...
ReplyDeleteMine in here. Thanks
great shots, Sandy.
ReplyDeletethanks visit my swf post
These are beautiful shots! Amazing skies!!!
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Great captures,as usual.Have a nice weekend!
ReplyDeleteThat second photo was so DRAMATIC!
ReplyDeleteCool post.
Jennifer
wow...spectacular clouds! the first photo has calming effect.
ReplyDeletethanks for visiting my skywatch post. have a great weekend!
I love it. Very nice for skywatch.
ReplyDeleteI love your cloudy sky of the second picture. These clouds look so dense! How it would be comfortable!
ReplyDeleteThe first one is so delicate and fine this frame of leaves looks like lace.
Thanks to share with us, Sandy.
Have a great week end full of pictures and texts, for us, later.
Lovely frame of leaves. Thanks for checking out my contribution.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful sky. I love the clouds. MB
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and amazing. MB
ReplyDeletesimply amazing. what else to say!!!
ReplyDeleteHow well you caption your shots! Amazing shots, enjoyed them.
ReplyDeleteOh I love the second photo! The clouds look like waves in the ocean. Great shot!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful and calm again is feeling in your pics:)
ReplyDeleteOh, these are lovely! I like the sky through the trees, and the cloudscape in the second one is impressive.
ReplyDeleteAmazing cloud formations.
ReplyDeletegreat sky shots
ReplyDeleteSummer skies ae full of change and optimisim, lovely photos.
ReplyDeleteexcellent!
ReplyDeleteSpectacular and observant. The clouds left me speechless. Your peony shots are great too. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletep.s. Have you read Ethan Frome?
wow .... amazing pictures!
ReplyDeleteI love the framing of the first, but oh! Those beautiful clouds in the second!
ReplyDeletethat top one could be the jaws of some beastie... :-]
ReplyDeletenice post. enjoy your w/e.
I love it when the clouds are so perfect that you can reverse it in your mind, and you're actually looking at islands in a sea. Some amazing illusions up there.
ReplyDeleteWhat great photos, peaceful and tranquil.
ReplyDeleteThe second shot makes me think that just off camera there's a cloud pursing its lips and BLOWING ....
ReplyDelete:-Daryl
The two photos look similar in locations with one being cloudy and the other clearing up. Very interesting shots, Sandy!
ReplyDeleteI really like how you did both photos.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots...we've had the same rain down here in SW CT...but it does make for a beautiful growing season.
ReplyDeleteYou're so right, Sandy. The clouds have been so huge and magnificent that my camera can't seem to catch their glory. But you did! I love how you peek to heaven through the gaps in the branches.
ReplyDeleteOf the Lord:
ReplyDeleteHis way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Nahum 1:3b
Could that be why I love clouds so much?
That second photo has so much depth. I love all the layers of clouds there. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteMy skies on my SW look similar to your second photo. Of course our weather is similar since we live pretty close to each other. Lovely photos, Sandy! Have a great weekend! :)
ReplyDeleteI could have taken the same pictures, lol ! Our skies are very much the same !
ReplyDeleteLovely photos for SWF. The clouds are lovely. Have a nice weekend.
ReplyDeleteSandy, I love the photo with the branches, like looking through a peephole, very nice. I love how the clouds change so often. I think my very favorite are in late Autumn when the snow clouds start to appear. They have such a mysterious look to them.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Kimmie
Wonderful Perspective.
ReplyDeleteAmazingly beautiful!
ReplyDeleteNice skywatch photos. Interesting clouds.
ReplyDeleteHi Sandy
ReplyDeleteReally liked the pics you have put up ..the peonies , the roses , the porch . Best of all loved the caption and the sentiments for "Mind the gap" .
Enjoy your weekend and thanks for your visit .
The first photo is lovely with its delicate contrasts. The second one majestic with those sweeping cloud formations. This is an ever-changing, inspirational time of year, no?
ReplyDeleteLove it, Sandy.
Great shots, Sandy!
ReplyDeleteAwesome clouds, too.
Have a nice weekend.
Now the rain is here - pleas send some of the blue...
ReplyDeleteShare a little of that rain with us out here, would you?
ReplyDeleteYour gap's view of the weather is most evocative, Sandy.
Stunning clouds!
ReplyDeleteMy SW
These are great. It's amazing how when the rains come everything is so much greener. I just can't seem to water like the Lord can!
ReplyDeleteAmazing clouds on your second picture :)!
ReplyDeleteGreat shot. It has been very cloudy around here, too. But the sun is shining and the sky is blue today! Mike
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful clouds formations. I like the 1st photo. Very creative.
ReplyDeleteAlexander
Alex's World! - http://www.kakinan.com/alex
I'm a little late but always in time to say hello and watch your "sky watch".
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend
Lovely photos! It's hard to comprehend how there can be so *many* different-looking skies over the same piece of earth!
ReplyDeleteWow! The first picture is beautiful, but the second. Wow, breathtaking.
ReplyDeletePicture nr 2 is the one I like the best, really great.
ReplyDeleteand thanx for leaving a comment on my pictures:)
Those are beautiful shots! Thanks for sharing! My very "first" entry is up as well. Hope to see you there!
ReplyDeleteCheers,
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Sandy, these are just gorgeous! The heavens truly proclaim the glory of God!
ReplyDeletelovely, the gap is great, the shapes of the trees seem to follow each other. I adore foul wether, it makes for such interesting skies, like those moody clouds of yours, yummy!
ReplyDeleteWonderful skywatch photos! You have a great blog.
ReplyDeleteGreat sky watch :)
ReplyDeleteVery cool how well those photos work together...It takes a special eye to see what you photograph.
ReplyDeleteIn your shots, you give what Ansel Adams was talking about here..."It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
Thanks
Amazing pictures as always Sandy. Thanks for sharing. God bless.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting and comment. I am glad to meet all you on Web.
ReplyDeleteYou are Stars on my Weekly Sky.
Luiz Ramos
Rio de Janeiro, June 21, 2008
Uh-oh! That does NOT look too promising...!
ReplyDeleteThanks for being here.