Some summer days don’t have the puffy cumulus clouds to image critters in the clouds, but instead look more like kitty litter scattered on the floor or frost on a window.
Whether cumulus or cirrus clouds, I just to see some green instead of white snow.
Summer Wispy Clouds
Last week’s theme of spring wildflower didn’t help the winter to end, not when I’m looking out the window at falling and blowing snow. So instead of thinking spring, maybe I have to think of a warmer season like summer; a warm summer afternoon in the hammock instead of shoveling snow.
Lazy Summer Day
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated on March 17, the saint’s religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years even though Saint Patrick was not Irish.
Originally, the color associated with Saint Patrick was blue, the color of the Order of St. Patrick. Over the years the color green and shamrocks in association with Saint Patrick’s Day grew. Legend has it that St. Patrick would use the shamrock to explain the Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He would tie shamrocks to his robes, which is why the color green is worn.
Today, everyone is Irish and Irish tradition has it that if you do not wear green on St. Patrick’s Day, you get pinched !!
To honor Saint Patrick, today’s picture has the color blue for the Order of St. Patrick, green fields with white clover (included in the shamrock family), and you might even find some clouds that might look like a clover.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
The winter skies can produce sundogs when ice crystals are present in the air in very cold weather and there is a chance that some might be visible in the next few days but sometimes the sun can reflect on the winter clouds to give off different colors like green and in this case a pink color.
It seems rather eerie when the sun is masked by the clouds and makes it appear more like the moon than the sun.
Eerie Sun
With a grey day with only a predicted high of 39 to start November off, I’m already dreaming of warmer fall days and so are the frogs. Apparently the water is already a might chilly as the frog yesterday hopped in for a swim but made a quick U turn and then flattened down in the deer track to catch the sun yesterday and to be out of the wind. I just had to pull my hood up while feeding the fish since I didn’t fit in a down in a hoof print track in the mud.
Warm Fall Day Down at the Pond
This fall it seems like the clouds have taken on a lot of unusual formations, probably since they haven’t delivered any needed rain, but instead they are wispy and thin.
Wispy Clouds
After I left the area where I was shooting photographs of the barn and headed home, the skies turned dark but no rain. Later in the evening I figured there would be a nice sunset since there were clouds in the sky but I was wrong since the sun was mostly buried by the clouds. But when I looked behind me, I found color in the clouds to the east as they were catching the glow of the sunset.
Clouds Catching Sunset Glow
After I shot the flower pictures which I posted yesterday, the sun started to disappear and reappear due to the clouds, and some clouds were rather big clouds. It always amazes me how fast a thunderhead can build as there wasn’t a cloud in the east sky when I went to the pond last evening, but a few minutes later, one was billowing up.
It really looked ominous when the low dark clouds were covering the thunderhead at first with just peeks of white showing through the gray, but once the dark clouds moved out of the way, the white cumulonimbus still looked ominous and more imposing while it continued to climb upwards.
Climbing Cumulonimbus
I had a couple of flower pictures picked out for today but they didn’t match my mood so when I went out to take the sunset, I found that the clouds moved in already so I took this cloud shot instead.
Dark Moody Clouds
