SkyWatch ~ Sunset Serenade

Coming home from town the other day, we stopped in one of

the little towns on the way to pick up some milk . . .

Going back to the car, the sky was full of magic,

as it started to rain, I looked slightly to the right and saw the

season of rainbows still had something in it's pocket . . .

raindrops on the lens and all . . .

I think I would make a pretty good sharp-shooter, all the

following shots were taken from a fast moving car.

I thought this one looked like something 'out of Africa'.

This was more like a bushfire (wildfire for those in N.America).

This one is just a tad threatening . . .

I was amazed how with so many trees along the roadside

impeding my view, I managed to get quite reasonable shots.

Somehow I managed to gather the best clouds with even a

bit of foreground.

Enlarge and enjoy!

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MY WORLD ~ Back to the Ranges

I know I have posted about this remarkable part of South

Australia before but this is an area I love so much that I

just could not help showing you a little more.

The Ranges are a National Heritage area, a National Park

where the 'dreamtime' sings to you and draws you into the

landscape. Painters are mesmerised by the beauty of the

light and intricacy of the rock formations and those who

seek solace for the sole just soak it up through every pore.

Hills photographed while driving by and as you snap, suddenly

you see a patch of brilliant colour.

Whether you have time or not, you stop and get out of your

car for a closer look. Snap a few dozen photos and turn back

to be faced with a flowering bush perhaps not quite as stunning

as the Sturt Desert Peas, but certainly a stunner in it's own right.

For the purists among the artist community there is gloriously

colourful ochre right on the roadside. One is not supposed to

plunder this riches but how can one resist when it is washing

away before your eyes.

Red ochre above and yellow below. There was white, deep

yellow and orange to be found here and there as well.

Changing light and little birds capture you attention

and the ever present red soil one can just never get enough of.

Beat this for a colour contrast!

All photos enlarge if you want to be sucked into the magic.

Enlarge at least the first one to see the folding of the mountainsides.

Thanks as always to the MY WORLD Team for hosting this meme.

SkyWatch ~ and God picked up a brush . . . .

and, with great exuberance



made magic in the skies . . . .



as, with startling suddenness



the dome of sky glowed with pure wonder.



Please enlarge for greatest enjoyment ... if nothing else, at least
the last one.

To be continued, God willing, next week . . .

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Thank you SkyWatch Team for the opportunity to share and enjoy.

SkyWatch ~ Moonlight

Sorry I'm late posting, I just was not up to it before.

Moon hiding behind scudding clouds



















making a magical circular rainbow.

The skies are full of wonders.

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Nature Notes and SkyWatch ~ Moon Magic

Hot, steaming summer night, sleep, that elusive rogue has fled.
I toss and turn, defeated I follow reluctantly into the moonlight
drenching the liquid air with gold.

The night so still, watched over by enchantress moon holds
promise yet of mystery and wonder. Gentle rustling in the bushes,
a possum intent on feasting on my rosebuds.

I listen rapt, waiting for I know not what when in the park a
solitary note, yet unmistakable, breaks forth.
It holds me rooted to the spot, not breathing lest it hide away its
fellows ... when there it is again, now stronger as with cadence sweet
she breaks into her lilting warble - a Nightingale as I live and
breathe!

Perhaps my guardian angel sent me out to hear this wonder of the
night. The world asleep and only i priviledged to hear once more
what I had given up as lost forever. My hungry soul laps up each
as it rises and falls. No sleep for me this night, the unexpected joy
is far too great.

Nightingales are imported birds known to exist in Melbourne, some

500 miles away across dry and burningly hot country. In South

Australia, the driest State in the driest Continent, they have been

unknown until this night unless it was a phantom singing solely for

my delectation.

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To you all my dear Bloggy friends I wish a wonderfully healthy and

successful New Year! See you next year!

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With thanks to Michelle of Rambling Woods for Nature Notes,

and our wonderful SkyWatch Team.

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raindrops

It rains and rains, drumming on the iron roof.

Though gray and gloomy be the day, it still

abounds with treasure. The droplets cling to

twig and leaf like diamonds all aquiver, just

stop and listen what they say, they speak to

us in voices gay of sunny skies and clouds of

gray, of mist and dreaming willow fronds, of

twinkling stars on faerie wands and thirsty soil

a-drinking. The roots of trees all parched from

drought and heat swell thirstily and sigh. How

can you wonder why a dark and dreary day I

bless, with rain, rain, rain, more rain.