Sunday’s many moods were diverse, extreme and spectacular.
An ordinary grey dawn commenced the day without fanfare or promise, but New England weather is nothing if not capricious!
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After their breakfast, it was cat walks which were rather brief due to a chill breeze.
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Mysterious Willow engages me with those perceptive eyes and reads the anxiety I always feel when she is without.
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Almost always she makes a beeline for the door and rushes past me though I have not spoken a word.
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Blackie, the stray that followed me in after months of hovering, is very tentative about outdoor excursions.
Thinking about it….
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“I could still change my mind!”
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“I’ll just go talk to Dee Dee.”
“You’re disturbing my meditation, Blackie!”
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“Sorry, Deeds.”
“It’s alright. Just don’t do it again.”
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She had a quick sniff at a flowerbed,
then marched determinedly back in.
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Not long after the day cheered up.
Temporarily.
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Then we had hail, briefly.
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Such drama.
Which reminds me that I saw a reference yesterday to the coming solar eclipse, with warnings that in Texas traffic is expected to be “apocalyptic”.
Methinks that’s a bit exaggerated.
Even for Texas.
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By lunchtime the show had really got underway and if I’d been just a few seconds quicker, I could have caught the red tail in the bulls’e eye.
So to speak.
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The iPhone is good for these shots.
These two are sharper than the previous, taken on my camera.
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Sun breaks through such heavy cloud were quite startlingly bright.
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Days like this, it’s hard to keep up and one needs to go outside to get a 360 view.
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Sun breaks and hail.
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Often I think my photographs are too repetitive, yet I cannot resist capturing sights which are never, ever going to be quite the same.
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Watching an all-day spectacle of this sort gives me enormous pleasure and I feel it would be selfish not to share it.
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Spotlights.
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It’s been many, many years since I visited the West Indies but I shall never forget those stunning skies with towering cumulonimbus.
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Or the exhilarating monsoon storms of South East Asia.
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The spotlight suddenly fell upon us.
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Soon the day was drawing in.
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I so love those evening rays.
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Another friend showed its face.
Will we have clear skies on April 8th?
Here we are warned that traffic will be busy and that we should lay in supplies of food and water.
Seriously?
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It was my intention to take you to Fort Edward with this post, which was Saturday, this fine day.
But somehow Sunday’s story got in here first.
Does it matter?
Have you ever thought about writing a book? You definitely have your way with words! 🙂
I remember seeing a solar eclipse of some kind when I was at primary school in London. We were given pieces of card to look through with tiny holes in them, and told not to look directly at the sky. I don’t think I could be bothered with it again, to be honest.
Best wishes, Pete.
We had a near total eclipse the last year I was in Washington. All I can say about it is that it felt strange, but then I suppose it would. I remember seeing little crescent shaped shadows. I certainly wouldn’t drive miles on the off chance of seeing one. I think we are in the place we are supposed to be at any given time. Such as today, coming back from an appointment we shot off nowhere in particular and arrived home just in time to see Scooter in the driveway. We have been worrying about her, so it made our day. She scurried off in a hurry and is moving well. So I distributed carrots for her.
Thank you, Carolyn, for the wonderful photos of the clouds!
Joanna
Yay! So glad you saw Scooter!
Great news!
Catherine
It matters not a jot, nor a tittle!
Keep on with the lovely skies, there are never two the same!
I think Blackie just wanted to make sure everything at the flower bed was still in order – no reason to be outside for longer than necessary! Oh my, but your sky IS dramatic in this post. You’re right, it’s too beautiful not to share!
Here in NE Texas, we are in the direct path of the total eclipse and it will be interesting to be in total darkness for four minutes, just a bit after noon. The hype is all around us, with warnings to gas up and get fully stocked on groceries because of the crowds that are expected. I do have my eclipse glasses, so I am ready for it.