TODAY'S FLOWERS - Delphiniums

Delphiniums in a dear friend's garden . . .

beautiful in blue

and just as pretty in purple.

Enjoy the flowers that bloom in your heart1

SkyWatch - Sunset Clouds

I tried to catch the golden lining to the clouds but it was too 

bright . . .

so I caught the fluffy clouds against the blue 

and some bare trees

but could not resist zooming in to the main event.

My heart goes out to all the folks in Colorado who have lost their homes,

I have been in the same boat. I hope with all my heart that you get a good thunderstorm to douse the fires.

God bless you all.

SkyWatch ~ . . . But a Moment in Time

Summer skies, shot within seconds of each other in less than

a minute, with no adjustments whatever.

Quite a lot happening all in the blinking of an eye . . .

This one was taken looking straight up to see the clouds darting

in all directions.

They all enlarge for closer inspection.

With many thanks to the Skywatch team for keeping this great meme afloat.

SkyWatch ~ Tones of Blue at Glenbarr Station

Skies at last week's "Enfoldment" workshop.
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Dusk falls over the dormitories.
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Next morning a lone hawk circles in the blue above our heads.
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To fly the skies click the Logo and soar into the blue.

MY WORLD ~ Eyre Peninsula Coast

When our souls are in need of a rest cure, we often head to the
Eyre Peninsola in South Australia.
There are miles and miles of unending, pristine beaches and
the constant boom of crashing rollers roaring in to assault the
land. Not another human being in sight.
A perfect paradise for a loner like me to be rejuvenared by
the buffeting winds and the salt sea air.
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The tonal range of blue the sea offers to my hungry eyes
sinks deep within my being
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making me skip and dance on the soft white sand
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to the rhytm of the ever pounding waves.
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A glimpse of coastal vegetation
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and a Pacific gull threatening to shower me with a rich, nourishing
blessing better suited to my garden.
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The sea scapes are worth enlarging if you appreciate the colour 'blue'

or are addicted to water.
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Thanks to the MY WORLD Team, we can all hold hands across the oceans.

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.

If you have not enlarged any up to now, at least enlarge the last

one to get the full force of that magical blue.

My thanks to the SkyWatch team for the opportunity to take part

in this wonderful meme.

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!

With thanks to Luiz Santilli Jr. and his team for providing and

co-ordinating this meme.

SkyWatch ~ More Sunset

To follow on from last week's sunset . . .

Now the Great Painter swung the brush again



with traces still of red, yet turning more to purple hues



a quick stroke melds both pink and blue



bringing to light the last glow of the sun.



The wonder is not yet ended. To be continued . . .

All photos enlarge for more colour magic.

The Logo at right opens a wealth of skies around the world which,
thanks to our wonderful SkyWatch Team we can all enjoy and share.

Watery Wednesday ~ Tropical Waterlilies

Blue waterlilies, blue water ....



changing to slate grey depending on the angle.

Click to enlarge.

Thanks to 2sweetnsaxy for this liquid meme.

SkyWatch ~ Clouds in a Sky of Blue

This week I photographed enough skies for three posts.

I loved the stairway to heaven and the fluffy clouds next to
the solid sheet across the sky. I also delighted in the way it
all grew over a space of a few minutes.

At the end, the sky was quite different again.

enjoy the skies of the world by clicking on the Logo.

Thanks to the SkyWatch Team our eyes have been opened to

so much beauty in the sky.

SkyWatch ~ Yet Another Sunrise

Enlarge if you wish...

Every day the sun rises, just not like this ...

using an immense range of the colour palette

the more you looked, the more you got.

Blues and pinks and purples, switching back to
glowing golds.

Reflecting on the insulation of our new shed and

accentuating the view from one of my studio windows.

Back to clear as well as burnished gold in the East.

Another super hot day in our heatwave has begun.

To visit the skies around the world, click on the Logo.

Thanks to the wonderful SkyWatch team for keeping this
meme week after week.

SkyWatch ~ 49 Clouds, just Clouds...

A couple of days ago we walked to the park to check
on the water level in the dam, when I saw these clouds.

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They kept changing so rapidly that I had to snap

as we went along.

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These photos are not adjusted nor did I use any filter,

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the sky really was such a deep blue. On our way

back across the paddock, some late afternoon

colour crept up from behind the hill

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but back in the garden it was quite different, with

the sky assuming a sunny summer quality and

making a perfect foil for one of my early spring roses.

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Click on the Logo to fly to other skies.

Thank you Klaus et al for hosting this meme.