May 7th - Cloud of a Different Color

So we were in Los Angeles today to visit the Getty Center - what a wonderful place! The views were incredible, and the sky seemed to be blue...but from a distance you could see a low-lying cloud over the city...

April 24th - Stay on the Road!

Keeping the jet on the runway long after take-off...

April 5th - Light Up the Sky!

Also not my backyard - but you gotta admit this is one crazy roman candle!

March 6th - Attack of the Giant Millipede

This is definitely something out of a bad sci-fi movie!
Boys would love it!

February 6th - Surf's Up!

A surfer's dream! The perfect wave breaks and thunders in towards the shore...

February 3rd - The Ultimate Question?

All I could think of was "huh?"

December 29th - Jaws Wide Open

Again chemtrails dominated the sky - the open jaws of a Florida alligator ready to devour any real clouds that dare to show up...

Blue Sky Sunburst

There was not a cloud to be had today - cool crisp, breezy and clear skys! The only way I could come up with a post was to find a synthetic cloudscape to photograph...

Hook, Line and Sinker...

My kids spent the day at Epcot, and they called me up soooo excited that they had taken a cloud photo that would far surpass anything I had seen to date. I was so excited - I couldn't wait to see it!

Silver Sliver

This is my favorite moon - I can just see the wee one sitting on the bottom with a nightcap and a candlestick...

November 13th - Fun Friday!

Today the only clouds to be had were the man-made kind. This contrail looked like fun in the sky!

October 11th - Sky Zipper

This contrail looks like a zipper running across the blue, blue sky. If you could unzip it I wonder what would be inside?

September25th -Delta Rocket Launch Contrail with Eagle

This morning at 8:20 a Delta Rocket launched from Canaveral into a perfect blue sky.

It's interesting to me that the rocket appears to be turning to go parallel to the earth, when in fact the rocket is going straight up, and it is the earth that is turning.

I love to watch the rocket itself get smaller and smaller. Hard to believe it can make such a distinct contrail.

And soon after the launch I always wait to see what design the forces of the atmosphere will create from the contrail. The design is highlighted by the sun peeking out from behind a palm tree trunk.

This was a bonus shot! As I turned to walk back down the street to my house, a gorgeous bald eagle flew directly over me. What a thrill!

September 20 - propeller of light

Sometimes there is this amazing effect when the sunset is partially blocked by a cloud on the horizon. The clouds create shadows across the sky, and the sunlit clouds look like a giant airplane propeller.

This is the view of the actual sunset.

This is the sky in the opposite direction as the sunset-lit stripes move across the sky to the horizon.

This is a closer view of part of the illuminated striations. the light seems to spill out of the cloud.

September 2nd - reflections

Today has been raining all day, and it's not supposed to stop, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to post a few of my "reflection of sky" photos which have a little more scenery than sky alone.

This image fascinated me because the foot bridge covered the horizon exactly giving the impression at first glance that the sky extends to the bottom of the photo. It almost has an Escher effect.

These clouds were wispy with highlightesd edges, and the sun flare at from top center accentuated the brightness of the day. The cloud's shape was an inverse of the pond's shape which added to the interest of the composition.

At the very edge of the pristine-looking pond above, a combination of road run-off and natural muck made a great contrast to the reflection of the sky.

August 31st - colors, black holes and parallel universes

Today the sky ran the gamut - beautiful clear blue to high rolling thunderheads to black low hanging clouds, and everything in between. It was hard to pick just 3 images!

This rainbow appeared from cloud to cloud - no rain attached! it was beautiful, and quite unusual.


The sky seemed to go up forever as this towering thunderhead grew past the low hanging clouds into a sky that was bright blue.


there was a giant hole in the sky with another entire sky behind it - like parallel universes...