Clouds 1
It’s not often we get clouds in summer.
Clouds 2
But when we do, they are always interesting. These ones look like cotton wool.
Clouds 3
Here you can see the fierce sun just waiting to obliterate the clouds; which it did shortly after these photos!
Clouds 1
You probably have no idea how happy I was to see clouds again, after so many long hot summer months of clear – deep – blue – skies!
Clouds 2
So yeah, I am on Cloud Nine!
Sun Set 1
Our Star beginning to set behind the Poinsettia.
Sun Set 2
Still shining fiercely even as she wanes in the sky,
This Star isn’t going down without a fight.
No wonder it is so hot here in summer!
Ice Crystals 1
It has been one of the hottest summers I remember, here in Cape Town. Temperatures have stayed in the mid to high 30s (Centigrade), with rarely a breeze.
As we baked yet again under a clear blue sky, I glanced up and noticed, finally, these few wispy clouds.
Ice Crystals 2
Forming, disappearing and reforming a good 6 kilometres above me, I wished I could fly through these ice crystals and find some relief from the enervating heat.
And if you look closely you’ll also see the Moon.
post script: These wispy ice-crystal clouds are Cirrus.
Out of the Blue Skies
I’m Back!
Did you miss me? I sure missed you!
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!
Sky Writing 1
Mysterious signs in the sky. Are aliens trying to contact us with this weird phenomenon, like they do with crop circles?
Sky Writing 2
I’ve never seen patterns like this before. This is Sky Writing taken to a whole new level!
Sky Writing 3
Conditions must have been just so to cause this cloud formation from a passing jet, in the North of England in June.
Either that, or the pilot was drunk!
Evening Star 1
Purple evening skies with unearthly lights.
Evening Star 2
A new Moon and the Evening Star.
Evening Star 3
Hanging in the purple mists, Venus and a Cheshire Cat Moon.
Evening Skies
Out of all the sunset colours I prefer the purple hues.
You may know of Venus as the  Morning Star, if you live in the northern hemisphere.
Winter Skies 1
A collection of verse
One
Look straight up on a winter’s day
When sun shines bright and clears the way
See blue touched by a silver band
Yet painted by no artist’s hand
Winter Skies 2
Two
With wisps and tendrils lovingly
Jack Frost adorns the skies
And biting cold no longer numbs
You gaze with spellbound eyes
Winter Skies 3
Three
Wafting on the icy breeze
Drifting over tops of trees
Soaring to the stratosphere
Floating ice-clouds soon appear
Winter Skies 4
Four
When mystery and mists combine
In curlicues and columbine
Then all your heart could ever hope
Is drifting there beyond your scope
Sky Light
Sky Light
I never tire of looking skyward
When the winds of chance
Waft pretty clouds my way
Painted Skies
It’s 6pm. Still light – Hello Summer! This is the view from my kitchen door as I washed the dishes last night.
Painted Skies 2
Yeah it took a while to wash those dishes!
Painted Skies 3
But you know what? There’ll be more dishes to wash tonight –
Painted Skies 4
But a sky like this only comes around once in a Blue Moon!
Mad Cap Dog 