SKIES OVERHEARD
I once nursed an old lady (stop me if I have told you this story already), she said to me as I came on duty that morning drenched from the rain. “What’s the weather like out there. Miss Nurse?”
I said “Pouring down.”
She looked at me like I was an idiot and as she put her walker into a practiced stompy three-point-turn she muttered loudly “Well, it would look bloody stupid if the rain was pouring UP wouldn’t it.”
I am sure she would have something to say about me naming this post Skies Overhead. It would look bloody stupid if the skies were underfoot wouldn’t it, she would have said. But then just imagine that. If we routinely walked through the skies as though it were perfectly normal. Maybe we would have special Sky Shoes and Puffy Jackets in seasonal colours.
Yes, I know I wrote skies OVERHEARD in the title (how many of you read SKIES OVERHEAD anyway – how often do we see what we expect to see) it was not a typo – the skies just called to me all day and I did not realise how often the lens went to the heavens. It was not until I took the card out of Camera House late yesterday evening and slid it into the computer, calling up my day in pictures, that I realised how noisy the sky must have been because the clouds had drawn my attention again and again.
Poor Aunty looks like a child’s toy cow set upon a stick.
I stood on the green truck to take a few of these, so while we are up there we may as well look into Molly’s backyard.
Later these two were posing.
It was a perfect day for the farmer and her animals yesterday – a perfect working temperature with a little breeze.
The corn is drying.
All the sky images were out to the East and the North.
It was quite cool in the night. All the pigs who had been sleeping out in their yards these past nights shuffled back into their houses.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi
WEATHER: Still perfect.
Thursday 09/28 10% / 0 in
Sunny. High 74F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night 09/28 0% / 0 in
Mostly clear. Low 51F. Winds light and variable.
Sun
6:46 am 6:39 pm
Moon
First Quarter, 59% visible 2:31 pm
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A very good post. Thanks for sharing!
How wonderful your greens are, so bright and lush, and how cool and damp your skies are, it’s almost as if you’ve put a filter on Camera House to saturate all the colours… We are in our fourth month with no rain, all our grass is brown and crispy, struggling out of the dust, and the skies are either hazy grey with smoke from the bushfires or a hot, harsh blue without a drop of moisture to be seen.
Of my gosh Kate, so very sorry to hear about your weather! Four months without rain is awful! We have had about a month with no rain, and that’s been bad. The earth, and all the grasses and trees, all plants are crying out for rain, and nothing is coming. I can just imagine how terrible it must be there!
It’s so hard for the farmers… My lawn isn’t important, but the animals and crops so badly need it. The worst of it is that we’re coming into storm season, and lightning strikes mean more fires. We’ll wait and see what happens, fingers crossed.
All “crossed up” here as well: )
Thank you!
It’s not looking good. We just pumped two tanks of water from the river… which as you know I had hoped never have to do.
We’ll be bringing a jerrycan of water with us when we see you; I know it’s not much, but every drop helps when you have to harvest your own.
Lovely thought. Thank you. Plenty of water here now though… I even got to water the whole garden -with a hose!- during the process. So good 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧
I’m now only watering the stuff in pots, the rest is having to fend for itself, even the fruit trees. It feels almost criminal to water a tree or bush when the guys growing our food are so desperate. Big cracks are appearing in the ground everywhere, wide enough to fit my hand into…
I bet the sky is listening too 😉
Noisy Skies indeed. Lovely to see Sheila and Poppy again too 🙂 Laura
Beautiful skies watching over you!
Yes. Just wonderful – it is the land of open skies
We also finally have some cool weather moving in today, high of 78 and low of 52. But what we desperately need right now is rain!!!
Lovely skies yesterday! I just love looking into the skies no matter the weather. We have RAIN finally – 31 days without and then the bottom fell out and swoosh! flooding. (Swoosh – I just love that word…..) Anyway – just flash flooding and all was normal 10 minutes later. Light rain today – ahhhh. Lastly, love the CHICKENS photo….
Wonderful love to see how it look like, it there any difference between the skies out there and my country,Ghana to be precise?
Marvelous post! I am reading Weahterland by Alexandra Harris. I think you might like it, was immense in the UK. I manage a few pages a day, which, given the topic is weather, seems about right.
That is great. I will find it. Do you want to pop into the Library page and leave your recommendation there too? This is where we all collect the books we really like! We like to keep up to date!
great photos. Love your story. Have a great day! 😊
Expressions are funny but I wondered what you heard from the skies when I read the title. I don’t think of you as making typo’s. 🙂 I hear them call me too on occasion. 2 mornings ago they called me in the dark of my bedroom to have a look at the sky and I saw the little dipper of the Milky Way. I haven’t seen stars in AGES! Today is summer, tomorrow autumn will be here permanently. Bringing rain. No more stars will be seen. If we were flying in a plane, where would we say the sky was? 🙂 Have a wonderfilled day again.
Where indeed… A good question for C’s querulous patient; )
(If she were still about; )
Yes, I read Overheard as well, and the thought that went through my head before reading your post was that it was likely storming in your neck of the woods… so, glad to see your weather is still good. This weather has been funny stuff… severe mid-summer heat with heavy humidity until yesterday afternoon when the wind suddenly came up and blew that all away and last evening called for sweaters. Today with an expected high of just 18 c. is far more seasonal and pretty perfect in my view. Your skies were beautiful and I’m glad you heard them. ~ Mame 🙂
Exactly; here as well! (Still waiting for the rain they keep mentioning ):
Ahhh – finally a break from the heat! I know my animals are loving these cooler temperatures as well. Beautiful sky views you always have out there where you are!
I so understand that love of the skies!
I think you had a wonderful and well deserved gorgeous day!
Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious!!!! I love everything about this post. And, of course, am addicted to sky-gazing as well.
xo
K
Yes! They make great postcards in zazzle too!
Beautiful cloud-work; SO many great captures. (Glad you weren’t too busy to hear them call: )
The Edge of another Storm passing by?
Or should I better say edge of a Storm moving in? (Hopefully)
No storm, just dark clouds –
I love your sky photos, especially to the north. Here I have a patch of sky to the northwest that I find myself watching. The sky is endlessly fascinating no matter which way you look and what time of day. Did you get any rain out of those stormy looking clouds?
Not a drop- after such a wet summer the crops are drying well
I love looking at the sky and clouds… but today my eyes really appreciated the greeness. We are still dry and smoky here.
Thank you for the prairie skies. It is lovely to have mountains and the ocean but there is nothing in the world as wonderful as open as endless as a prairie sky. Reaching for ever!!
It is the good season.
Clouds seem to be like cards shuffling the deck before start of the game.
Big open skies. Can’t stop but look and smile (or run to batten downtime hatches)
Lovely!
WOWIE WOW AND GOOD GOLLY, MISS MOLLY! SCRUMPTIOUS PHOTOS!
Such big skies that you have out there.
You are blessed to have two days in one, the second coming early the next morning as you compose from preserved images. And of course I am blessed to have two days also, mine and then yours. Wonderful world!
Great shots Celi! 😃
Thanx for putting this citified gal a lot closer to a farm with your pictures than I’ve ever been. I heard the skies loud and clear. I’m new at this blog game. Please check me out and leave a reply. It’s day 5 for me. Thx