SkyWatch - and the sun still rises . . .

The sun awakens chasing the pale moon from the sky

colour blooms on scattered clouds

and tinges yonder hill

the birds awaken paying homage to another day

My New Year's resolution

to fly high like this bird.

Hope I make it and hang the consequences!

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SkyWatch

SkyWatch - Yet Another Sunrise

Sometimes sunrise is so dramatic it pulls one

out of bed like a shaken champagne cork

you just stand there agog 

until the splendour passes

into more muted

but just as pleasing tones

Watch the sky for you will never see another like it

just as beautiful, yes

but always different . . .

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SkyWatch - Sunrise and another day

The sky is so much more colourful just before the sun rises

as the sun peeps through, the colours start to fade . . .

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SkyWatch - A Purple Sunrise

A delight to behold,

a right royal sunrise in purple and gold.

There are many diverse skies to be seen, just click

on the Logo on my side bar and enjoy.

SkyWatch - Hope

No matter what tragedies, pain or sadness comes your way,

the rising sun puts on a show to gladden your heart

with a wealth of colour

even away from the direct sun there are wondrous colours to 

stir your soul.

SkyWatch - Sunrise

Even after the darkest night, the sun still rises.

SkyWatch - A Moment of a Sunrise

The cold of winter brings joint pains with it, so this none too

happy bunny, is posting just one moment of a magical sunrise

at Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges.

Enjoy!

SkyWatch - Winter Sunrise

Captured on my early morning foray to the Angaston farmers' 

market.

As the sun lights up the landscape, you can see a touch of frost

and a stand of willows in the distance shivering in the cold 

of the morning.

Valley fog trails across the road

and lingers in low lying meadows.

Hope you all have great skies wherever you are!

SkyWatch - A Day at Wirrealpa

Sunrise at a place I dearly love, Wirrealpa station in the North of 

South Australia.

A little drama during the day

that resolved itself into a rather nice sunset at gin & tonic time.

What a difference a day makes . . .

SkyWatch - Still the same Sunrise

Still from my wondrous early morning walk at Arkaroola:-

look back towards the sunrise and all the morning glory colour 

has left the sky.

to compensate, cotton-ball clouds adorn one quadrant

as the early morning sun makes the uncharacteristically lush 

vegetation glow

in shades of shimmering gold.

More unseasonal rainclouds well up

and just when you think all the red has faded from the earth,

there it is once more in all it's tantalising depth of colour.

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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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SkyWatch - Arkaroola Sunrise

I take off in darkness as Arkaroola village still sleeps, and hike

along the road towards Nooldulnoolduna Waterhole (I hope I 

have the right number of o's in that!). I walk with determinations

not to miss a moment of the dawn spectacle, and yes, slowly as 

the light grows, everything assumes the red glow I came for.

The sky itself in my direction looks quite bland but

turn around and it starts firing up. I hope the cloud cover will

nor dull the spectacle I expect.

Perhaps not as overwhelming as I had hoped, but rather nice 

anyway.

As the red glow spreads to the road as well, I speed up the next 

rise to get an open view of the glowing rocks.

A quick look back and I am transfixed by the emerging gold

that flames in the clouds,

I reach a little vantage point and watch the wonder of the rock 

faces bathed in blood.

This is what I came to the dry inland for, these moments of magic 

when the landscape is transformed.

Keep watching the wonder of the sky and capture those moments for all to see.

OUR WORLD - Peterborough Sunrise

                 Well, I'm safely back from our 1,400km trip to the wonders of our arid lands.

I have no idea why Blogger had to 'fix' something that was working well, at least much better and easier than now where every time I try to change something, I lose the whole post! This is my fourth attempt to get up an Our World post and I sincerely hope it works.

Once a thriving and important railway town with a prosperous agricultural base, Peterborough now still boasts a main street with four large hotels of the colonial era as well as the most imposing YMCA building I have seen anywhere.

Our overnight stop proved to be a goldmine of 18th and early 19th century architecture built to outlast the usefulness of the town itself.

The railway station has gone and unfortunately, there are many gaps in the once splendid main street.

The four hotels still left are the 'Federation', the 'Railway Hotel', the 'Peterborough Hotel' and, if I remember rightly, the 'Commercial.

A view to the YMCA and Town Hall with a typical palm tree of the 1870's still growing strong.

At left, the YMCA, a massive building with 15-18 foot ceilings and flanking it is the equally impressive Town Hall. Sorry, the photo does not capture the grandiloquence of either building and leaves out entirely the third in this row which is an even more opulent mansion, complete with ballroom.

For a sunrise walker, even the backstreets offer dear little cottages as well as many other houses marking the passage of the well-to-do of another era.

A little further back, there are also somewhat less salubrious sights.

And, lucky last, a peep at what lies ahead for a week or two of other posts to come.