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Taken on 21 June 2024 at 20:33 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time, as I hurried up the street through the break in the rain.

My limited equipment does the scene nothing even remotely resembling justice: neither the multi-layered gauzy rainbow-sherbet luminosity nor the grand theatricality of the skyscape, with the air of a vintage book illustration or a meticulously painted film backdrop. A detail I particularly like is the small dark cumulus cloud at bottom center that suggests a person astride a charging (pig? bear? huge dog?)

full_metal_ox

Taken at 5:52 PM EST 22 December 2023, this is something I really should’ve posted a year ago; I’m squeezing it under the wire just as the outgoing Lunar Year expires.

From the parking lot of my neighborhood Publix: the Rabbit prepares to hand the year over to the Dragon.

ysabetwordsmith

This afternoon I went outside intending to fasten the decorative wagonwheel, but it was half-buried under snow. I noticed the view looked pretty, though, so I went back for my camera and took pictures instead.

( Walk with me ... )

Current Mood: accomplished

ysabetwordsmith

Here are more pictures, mostly from the savanna and prairie garden. (See also the House Yard and South Lot, Midwinter Grove, and Heading Back Toward the House.)

( Walk with me ... )

Current Mood: accomplished

yourlibrarian

I liked the look of this sunset, with the contrail looking like a comet. What follows is an assortment of pics from past months.

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ex_weird446

Purple, blue, and green Aurora Borealis visible amongst stars in the night sky in Derbyshire, England

The aurora was visible tonight in Derbyshire, England!
Photos taken several hours apart—the second (later) image shows the clouds that developed since the first photo.

ysabetwordsmith

I took some pictures of the wildflower garden today after I finished cleaning it up. I leave things through the winter because some of the plants, like the northern sea oats and echinacea, have seeds for wildlife. I pick off and plant a lot of the seeds but never get around to all of them. Goldfinches especially like to cling to the seedheads and peck out the seeds.

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Current Mood: accomplished

yourlibrarian

So this might take a little imagination, but when I saw this cloud formation last night and went out to take pictures it struck me as a dragon's head by the trees with smoke coming off its body. And the "smoke" in the picture below just looked so impressionistic, like smears of paint on a canvas.
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Sunset between storm fronts, en route to Publix and Walgreen’s.

A happenstance silhouette at the neighborhood grocery.

Photos: Winter Sunset

Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden

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Aurora Borealis, 10/10/24

Wildflower Garden

Clouds of various kinds

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