Saturday, March 13, 2021

Clouds


I enjoy photographing clouds over the Florida Keys. They make up for the absence of mountains and valleys and lakes and rivers and other geographic features.
Usually I get to enjoy these huge piles of humidity in the summer months, the rainy season, but this winter has offered a large crop of cumulus from time to time.
Walking Rusty at the golden hour before sunset can yield amazing views of black horizons, mangroves in the shade and a sky filled with purples and pinks and in this case golden yellow, the color syrup.
I enjoy painting origami with my camera, folding leaves on spindly branches silhouetted by the dying sunlight.

Here I looked overhead and caught the blue directly above me. I do a lot of looking up when I am under clouds or in city streets.

 These pictures below I took on Blimp Road one overcast evening. 
I'm looking forward to enjoying daylight saving time now and having more daylight in the evening to walk Rusty after I get home at 6:30. I'll relieve my wife of that duty and enjoy more time with my dog.


I caught Fat Albert as the blimp hung among the scudding clouds, so it looked like the stationary observation platform really were flying along.
What a lovely evening we had together Rusty and I, him down sniffing me up staring.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons every where
Looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It's cloud's illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all.