the hillside stands a lone tree often featured in my sky
shots, behind it a line of trees of our small forest.
The tree appears small, yet is a mighty 200+ year old
River Redgum, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, having
weathered everything from drenching rains to droughts.
I hope it will stand proud for at least 200 years more.
A little weather rising from the south west
at first gently embracing the old tree, but, as it gathers
strength
its clouds almost obliterate the scene, swallowing
forest, hillside and tree to wrap it all in a wooly blanket.
If my skies are too cloudy, click on the Logo to see many others.
Thanks to Klaus and the ever diligent Skywatch team, we
can all enjoy this wonderful meme.
Beautiful images! I would love to go and sit under that tree with a good book...of course, after the storm has passed. Happy skywatching:)
ReplyDeleteMagnificent. May she stand for a thousand years! Breathtaking!
ReplyDeleteHave I told you alreadY?
I love your eyes.
But I also love your heart.
Oh what the heck, I love you!
Absolutely fantastic photos, especially with that dramatic sky.
ReplyDeleteOh, Arija, your photos are always so beautiful and your words always match them! This post is no exception! The clouds in the last do indeed seem to overwhelm that lovely old tree. I too hope it stands proud for another 200 years! Happy SWF!
ReplyDeleteI love your cloudy skies and hope they bring some precious rain to you and that ancient tree.
ReplyDeleteI loved your cloudy skies!
ReplyDeleteLovely skies and lovely tree Arija.
ReplyDeleteLovely old tree, Arija! I like the quirky way it spreads its branches. Looks as though you had some nasty weather there.
ReplyDeleteWonderful images. I especially loved that second photo with heavy clouds overhead a single solitary tree.
ReplyDeleteBTW, were you able to get in mr linky at skywatch site today? It wouldn't let me in, and I just found out I wasn't the only one.
I love old tree´s too.Great shots!Your pics of the cloudy skies are beautiful.Thank you for sharing and have a nice weekend!
ReplyDeleteYour skies aren't too cloudy for me, I like stormy weather. Nice shots.
ReplyDeleteHowever a mighty 200 year old tree was not bowed by the weather.
ReplyDeleteLovely capture. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic photo's!
ReplyDeleteAmazing with this clouds!
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Lovely clouds and I can see why you choose to feature this well-formed eucalyptus in many photos.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos, easpecially with the tree at the sky line. =)
ReplyDeleteI love this series, and what great clouds! The tree does look special.
ReplyDeleteThe last one is suberb!!!! realy nice cloudsetting, great picture!!!
ReplyDeleteHave a nice skywatch Friday
I love that second image! I hope your tree stands too. :)
ReplyDeleteMy post is here: Carletta’s Captures.
Breathtaking!!
ReplyDeleteI just love that dramatic sky!
Have a great friday!
Anna
Heavy rain clouds seem to be hitting us worldwide.
ReplyDeleteGreat cloudy skies.
ReplyDeleteSydney - City and Suburbs
I love the second photo. I hope that it goes for another 200 too.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy dark and stormy skies, they look so mysterious.
ReplyDeleteVery very cool!
ReplyDeleteOh, I love knowing all that about this tree, and the love you feel for it sure comes through in your words and photos!
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos, you have a gorgeous view. Love that old tree, I hope it last another 200 years too.
ReplyDeleteGreat scenes.The clouds do look threatening.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,Ruth
I like the different views of the same scene, and the tree is lovely. I share your wish that it live 200 years more in strength and beauty.
ReplyDeleteWow...that tree has charisma. I hope it's around for another 200 myself!
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful sky watch shots. And that is a lovely tree.
ReplyDeleteYour skies are beautiful... I love the sequence of photos which shows the clouds overtaking the landscape. Awesome. :)
ReplyDeleteYou always have nice words and description of your photos. When the dark clouds would go away, I'd like to sit under that tree...
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visit and rhyming response!
ReplyDeleteYour idea of a campfire is more romantic than mine!
What a grand old tree and the photos of it are beautiful with those wonderful skies.
ReplyDeleteGreat images! How nice to have such a wonderful subject to photograph through the seasons.
ReplyDeleteYou have a beautiful spot from which to watch the sky! I love pastoral scenes with a lone tree on the horizon and silhouetted against the sky.
ReplyDeletelove the intensity of these. Well done
ReplyDeleteOh no, they weren´t that cloudy. Just great fluffy clouds full of rain!
ReplyDeleteSuch a magnificent sight the 200 year old tree! How many storms has it weathered and still it stands strong!
ReplyDeleteHappy SWF viewing!
So dramatic. The second shot is stuffing.
ReplyDeleteYour skies look like ours right now except I don't think you have the cold we're having :(
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely series of photos and what a grand old tree. I too hope it stands for many more years...we lose too many of these beauties for no reason. Your storm skies are great and beautiufully captured.
ReplyDeleteBlessings and smiles
sure looks like something brewing up there, nice cloud formations
ReplyDeleteoh, so beautiful! the landscape is amazing!
ReplyDeleteLove it. the tree is like a monument.
ReplyDeleteClouds are great. MB
Breathtaking shots! Hope you have a great weekend. =)
ReplyDeleteThat tree has seen a lot of weather in 200 years. Great pictures.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful skies. Great shots.
ReplyDeleteAmzing shots of the sky!
ReplyDeleteAnd what a fantastic tree.
En joy your weekend.
Yes it looks like wrap it all in a wooly blanket.
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I cross my finger that it will stand forever!
Beautifully different perspectives.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Here is mine!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing these dramatic sky pictures with us. I, too, hope your tree stands for another 200 years.
ReplyDeleteThese shots are really good! I'm jealous of you having such a nice tree so close to capture in different situations. You do it well! :)
ReplyDeleteDramatic sky images !!!
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping that the tree will stand for many, many more years...
I love your cloudy skies. Keep 'em coming! Great tree, too; I really appreciate the expanse, since we have to drive much further west to see this kind of openness. My father, an old desert rat like me, once remarked that past New Mexico there were just "too many trees." He liked them isolated like this one, so one can appreciate them more.
ReplyDeleteSometimes when clicking around into everyones participating at skywatch one finds sites likes yours. You have a lot of beautiful shots! I love the threes in all different colours under.
ReplyDeleteThat's not too many clouds for me. I love the thick billowy clouds in the last shots. Awesome! :-)
ReplyDeleteLovely skies ..
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting mine .. I am not the youngest of three sons .. I am a woman, LOL!
I love your weather watch tree and these are stunning shots.
ReplyDeleteRhe trees were here before us - they will still be here when we are gone.
ReplyDeleteVery dramatic autumn clouds and sky you have! What a pleasure to view your corner.
ReplyDeleteGreat skies and beautiful tree!!! Love it.
ReplyDeleteyour captures of the aged tree and surrounding landscape are beautiful...just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteFantastical Photographs !! Old Tree Is Also Great...Loved Your Blog..
ReplyDeleteHi Arija, I love the "skyline" in your photos. Well done. I am unable to link to SkyWatch this week - just impossible. I'll have to re-post my photos next week... Have a wonderful weekend. (((Hugs)))
ReplyDeleteSplendid sequence, with the zoom on the tree and then the wide-angle!
ReplyDeleteHave a very good weekend!
A most magnificent tree! The stories it could tell, eh? I would use it in many photographs, too!
ReplyDeleteOh ist das wunderbar Arija, ein alter Baum, da vergisst man den tollen Hinmmel. Als Drechsler sehe ich das Holz mit anderen Augen.
ReplyDelete... und nein, bin noch nicht auf Rreisen ich träume nur von letzten Jahr.
Liebe Grüsse
I'd love to be sitting under that tree reading a book!
ReplyDeleteAmazing skies ... wonderfully photographed.
ReplyDeleteHugs and blessings,
Hello, beautiful photos there, thank you for sharing, i love taking shots of the sky too, just joined, have a great day..:) MonikaORse
ReplyDeleteHi Ma
ReplyDeleteHad a great night with India, she's a legend. I love you cause you made her, and she rocks! We had a blast, laughed and cried and all the in between bits that girls who stitch and bond have. Ask her about sewing 'hemispheres', she said you taught her well as a result. And if that big dry don't quit, come to Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. Looking at this photo, seems u have a few clouds of your own. Live by the sea. It's two minutes away here. Just a hop, skip and a jump.
I love that lone tree and very glorious looking against they. Postcard perfect picture again.
ReplyDeletei love the drama in the sky
ReplyDeleteAnother page of your beautiful cloud collection! Once again you make me feel as if I were right in the middle of these changing clouds. I love how that beautiful old tree seems to touch the clouds!
ReplyDeleteArija,
I am going to post images of Heiligenstadt which will look familiar to you, after seeing the Vienna Philharmonic's concert at Schönbrunn Park! I took them this past week, just didn't have the time available to prepare a blog post.
Greetings from little A to big A! :-)
Fabulous photos!! Thanks for your visit.
ReplyDeleteYour photos are beautiful...I looked at all the rest too!
ReplyDeleteWow. Thanks for visiting my Journal.
These captures are just gorgous. Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteSmiles Barbara
What a magnificent tree, long may it stand sentinel.
ReplyDeleteLovely to feature that heritage Redgum tree Arija. You said it weathered for 200 years? It will still go a long way Arija. 200 years is only a portion of a minute to God's time. Lovely photos as always.
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming to visit my blog Arija.
Beautiful photos! The second one is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteGreat skys and great country
ReplyDeleteBeautiful images. The tree really seems to direct the weather!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love the lone tree against the immense sky.
ReplyDeleteBoth the photos and the words that accompany them are beautiful and descriptive, worthy praise for a 200+ year-old giant.
ReplyDeleteAs always awesome shots, Arija.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice week.
I join you in wishing that wonderful tree an even longer life. It is so stately there etched against the skyline.
ReplyDeletewell, it was certainly a dramatic weather day all over the world, wasn't it? thank you for offering up these glorious clouds!
ReplyDeleteWhat a magnficent tree and beautiful sky! I'm late catching up with skywatch but I'm glad I made it here to see this. It's a lovely skywatch post :)
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