OUR WORLD - More of the Amazing Sunrise Light

Continuing from last Friday's SkyWatch, here is a little more of 

the same sunrise light turning the rocks red.

This is just a little sample of the rocky road and here it had been 

graded since  the great rains that had all the creeks rushing and

locking down all roads to and from Arkaroola Village.

As usual, the brightest red was on the rocks supporting solar cells

and satellite dish. Ah well, only Allah is perfect . . .

I saw the light turning the hills over the ridge a bright gold but

try as I might to scramble up the hill to a vantage point, I only

managed to catch a tiny glimpse of it.

The road ahead still had some of the sunrise red but

look back and the magic seems gone. There will be more of the 

glory in Friday's SkyWatch.

For those of you who commiserated with my two flat tyres, my

guardian angel stood by for both. The first one at Wirrealpa station 

went down over night and the boys there fixed it for us. We ourselves 

had no hope of even changing it as the oil had leaked out of our jack

and it was rendered useless. The second tyre expired as we were 

checking in at Arkaroola and luckily they had a compatible tyre and 

another arriving the next day. I had both damaged tyres replaced, just to 

be on the safe side, so it was mainly the $800.00 that was the painful bit.

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TODAY'S FLOWERS - Pure Gold

On this Easter Sunday, I give you the last of summer's golden

glow along my driveway

and the bright autumn gold of Sternbergia lutea, in a dear

friend's garden.

Wishing a Joyful Easter to all you flower-lovers and any other visitors who

drop in here from time to time.

SkyWatch ~ Yet Another Sunrise

Oh dear, I seem to have a new sunrise every week. You must

be getting sick to death of them . . . but what can I do when

the rising sun puts on a show for me??

Homing in to the starting show . .

and panning out to as much of the sky as I could fit in,

turning towards the west to capture the first glow on the hill

and back to the sun painting the sky with a broad brush

as, with chattering teeth, I make a beeline back to my nice

warm bed where I fortuitously had turned my 'lecky blanky

on three. Ah, bliss as I snuggle into my toasty warm bed.

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Weekend Reflections - Look down to look up

Just a couple of shots from our trip in May seeking fall colour.

On Golden Pond?

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SkyWatch & Nature Notes ~ The Inimitable Magnificence of Nature

Leaving Second Valley on the coast of South Australia rather

later than I had planned, I noticed the developing sunset.

The road was long and windy and the light augured well for

something spectacular to follow.

There is one gap in the hills before you can get a view of the sea

and only one place where you can safely stop, so it was pedal to

the metal as I held my breath and hoped to make it.

Around the last bend and into the lookout car park.

This first shot, as I wound down my window.

By the time I was out of the car, the light had changed

dramatically and the shadows were lengthening.

The sea turned into a cauldron of molten gold,

sea, sky and earth were suffused with golden light . . .

Looking up the coast, the sea was so blue while the coastal

grasses turned red.

At my feet all was golden, I could have mined my shoes.

Again, the sun bounced off the water

and turned it's molten magnificence into a different tone

of gold. When is too much not enough? When you stand there

bemused by all this glory . . .

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SkyWatch ~ A most Romantic Sunset

The little cove at Second Valley, South Australia, is one of those

special places on this Earth. Delightful any time of day but when

the sun sets, well, there is a feeling that is hard to fathom . . .

the sky and sea turn into fluid gold.

I noticed this couple sitting night after night quietly regarding

the spectacle of the sinking sun. They just sat here or there,

while the gold merged into, first the pinks

then orange, heralding the finale

of the sun melting into the sea

and still the couple sat . . .

Do forgive me for not visiting, I am still well away from my service

provider and will do my best on my return.

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TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ Pure Gold

Looking for gold? It's free and enough for all comers, take

as much or as little as you like, there are fields and fields of it.

The more you pick the more it multiplies. Nature is like that,

she gives with an open hand and shares her bounty with anyone.

I even have a goldmine in my garden!

Be brave and enlarge!

Thanks to Luiz Santilly Jr., the creator of TODAY'S FLOWERS

I can sprinkle gold dust right around the world.

SkyWatch ~ One Element of a Sunset

This week I had a sunset and a half. That is why I am only

giving you this one element of these clouds shooting into the

sky like fireworks. This skyshow is happening directly over-

head with me facing more north than any where else.

My camera and I were mesmerised by all the wonders developing

around us so just imagine what was going on in the west and east

while this was going on at the zenith.

From a gentle sweep, to gold to rose . . . next week, more!

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SkyWatch ~ Equinox Sunrise - Moonset

The full moon flees from a purple sky and dashes over the

hill top chased by the red glow of the rising sun.

The sun meanwhile bursts on the scene shooting a victory sign

high into the the retreating darkness

and shows her glory in a blaze of gold

setting the sky alight with a roaring fire.

With this God given glory, I wish each and everyone of you a

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HAPPY NEW YEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

May whatever God you believe in smile upon you and keep you

in good health, give you someone to love and of all things enough!

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SkyWatch ~ and God Still Swung the Brush

Third and last week of the same extraordinary sunset.
Please do enlarge them, you will be rewarded.

not content with gentle washes, now the highlights come into

play

streaks of blinding gold career across the sky

mutating, softening into pink on blue and

ever so slowly deepening into the purple and blue

of oncoming night. A ghostly whorl of white among the darkening

clouds

as darkness turns the evening into the dreamy blue stillness

of the night.

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one to get the full force of that magical blue.

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TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ Blue and Gold

With cold wet winter here our once blue skies have turned to
grey though smiling still in bright blue pots of Lobelia.



A stray gold Rose still blooms defiantly, hoping against hope to
be last in line for pruning.

The world is full of flowers, click the Logo and enjoy!

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Renee has grown Wings

Renee and Wahid at a happy family wedding.



Now Renee has earned her wings and her worldly sufferings are over.

The Weaver

My life is but a weaving
between my Lord and me;
I cannot chose the colours,
He worketh steadily.

Oftentimes He weaveth sorrow
and I , in foolish pride,
forget that He seeth the upper
and I the under side.

Not till the loom is silent,
and the shuttles cease to fly,
shall God unroll the canvas
and explain the reason why

the dark hreads are as needful
in the weaver's skillful hand,
as the threads of gold and silver
in the pattern he has planned.

Anonymous

Farwell dear Renee ... wherever the light shines, a tree will grow.