One of the the things I find our two homes have in common is the sky. It is big. When it is big and blue here it is just like when it is big and blue in Maleny. Looking up at, and across it, something we do in both places.
However, I hadn't, until yesterday, really seen a great fiery sunset or sunrise here.
We woke yesterday morning to the colour starting in the sky.
By the time we were downstairs it was spreading and changing before our eyes, so it took a long time to have our juice as we kept ducking out to look.
It changed again and started to enhance the sky at the back (to the west)
So then I had to do an overhead panorama shot - looking like a limbo dancer as I did - to try and capture the sense of it.
And then we walked, as we do, to the cove and the colour shifted and changed again.
A mackerel sky it is called apparently - the clouds look like fish scales.
As we began to walk home it was still startling.
Even reflected in a puddle the clouds looked good.
And the cottage had this backdrop in the sunshine. Wonderful light all morning.
Sometime nature just puts on a show and all you can do is gaze in wonder...
However, I hadn't, until yesterday, really seen a great fiery sunset or sunrise here.
We woke yesterday morning to the colour starting in the sky.
By the time we were downstairs it was spreading and changing before our eyes, so it took a long time to have our juice as we kept ducking out to look.
It changed again and started to enhance the sky at the back (to the west)
So then I had to do an overhead panorama shot - looking like a limbo dancer as I did - to try and capture the sense of it.
And then we walked, as we do, to the cove and the colour shifted and changed again.
A mackerel sky it is called apparently - the clouds look like fish scales.
As we began to walk home it was still startling.
Even reflected in a puddle the clouds looked good.
And the cottage had this backdrop in the sunshine. Wonderful light all morning.
Sometime nature just puts on a show and all you can do is gaze in wonder...
My mom used to say "mackerel sky, storms nearby"
ReplyDeleteAlso "red at night, sailors' delight ... red at morning, sailors take warning"
I hadn't known of mackerel sky before Liz - I like the saying as well. We had a red sky at night, shepherds delight; red sky in the morning shepherd's warning...so shepherds and sailors!
Deletebeautiful photos, am in love with the surreal effect of your limbo dancer panorama
ReplyDeleteFabulous effect isn't it Mo - the panorama shot on an iphone going vertically instead of horizontally... and stretching one's back!
DeleteAmazing! Here we say red sky at night, sheperd's delight, red sky in the morning sheperd's warning. So much rain this Autumn sorry there has not been an Indian summer for you.
ReplyDeleteLouise I know the same saying...but we have been lucky with not much rain up North. I have learnt about bluebird skies as well as we have had a few of those wonderful days too! Our neighbour calls a blue sky day "a day between weathers..." I love it.
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