Last Thursday the sky went crazy. It started out beautiful before
sunrise with wind-blown cirrus in a blue sky and wavy streaks of light
at the horizon. Lovely.
The sun hadn't come up yet above the mountains, but the hints were there. I zoomed in to get a better look at that wavy light.
I
had run outside early to see if I could catch a glimpse of the moon,
Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. Yes, they were there, floating in and out of
the cirrus above the rising sun. Oh what a beautiful morning it was.
But
all day long the sky kept changing, making a cloud lover like me run
for the camera every five minutes. But then around 4:00 in the afternoon
the sun and clouds met and created some of the most beautiful
iridescent clouds I had seen a long while. Here is a screen grab from
the downloaded photos straight from the camera.
I added the above screen grab, hoping you'll click on it and see what the sky
looked like. Except, of course, the sky didn't look like that exactly.
The blue is off a bit. It was both a lighter, but deeper blue. The
iridescent colors were stunningly vivid, and yet the camera only picked
up somewhat softer hints of it. Or maybe my eyes see things differently
from the way a camera set to "auto everything" does. I don't know.
So I picked a few photos and tried to see if I could photoshop them to look the way my eyes saw the sky.
Yes, this what I saw.
I
ran to the front of the house to see if I could get a different
perspective, hide the sun behind the roof peak rather than behind the
big cypress in the yard. Oh wow. The clouds had already changed a bit.
These colors were beautiful, but in a
laconusus formation they were crazy wavy and curlicue wild.
I
plan to send some of these to the Cloud Appreciation Society. I'm
hoping they'll like the iridescent lacunosus. I know I have never seen
anything like it. I just love when the sky goes a little crazy like
this. These last four photos are seven minutes of sky and memorable for a
lifetime.