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Friday, May 30, 2008

Stop--look--and listen

I took this last week on a perfect, clear-as-a-bell late spring day. The leaves had morphed from their baby soft chartreuse into their true state: green, shiny, challenging the wind.

The sky was perfectly blue with a wisp of a cloud here and there. But this cloud drew my eyes away from all the splendor because it reminded me of a funnel cloud.

On Monday a very strong tornado ravaged an area just a few miles north of us in the farmland of Hugo and Blaine. It left eerie, and in some cases, total devastation in its rickrack path.

These colors combined reminded me of a beautiful flag of sorts--green and white on a blue background.

See more sky or to join in at SkyWatch Friday , hosted by the intrepid Tom.

Happy Friday!

31 comments:

  1. A beautiful spring sky! Look out for "them tornaters" though...this is the season. :)

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  2. This is a very nice and colourful photo!

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  3. Thanks for your kind words on my blog today!

    This is very beautiful and reminds me to go outside and enjoy the day!

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  4. Beautiful colours, have a nice weekend:)

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  5. What a beautiful blue blue sky!

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  6. Such beautiful colours on your picture,love it!

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  7. Nice to see the trees painting the sky with white.

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  8. Great Skywatch Pic!

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  9. Beautiful sky photo. I'm glad you didn't get hit by the tornado.

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  10. It's a surprisingly lucky moment to get a chance to take a photo like that. Beautiful! Thank you for your visit and your kind words on my blog. Have a wonderful weekend!

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  11. A very beautiful sw picture!

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  12. What a lovely day and beautiful sky. And such contrast to the tornado!

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  13. Realy nice sky and picture.

    Nice weekend to you, from Anne in the middle of Norway,

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  14. I love the way the cloud connects the tree and sky - lovely!

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  15. perfect one for SWF! mine's up too hope you can drop by.

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  16. Your cloud really is strange. The video you linked to is frightening. Thank heaven you were spared.

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  17. Fab pic. It looks like the spirit of the tree is leaping upward into the sky.

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  18. I like your sw photo and lovely description, Nonizamboni.

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  19. Wonderful shot. Very nice colors too:)

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  20. Beautifully framed and captured..

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  21. The word verification for this comment is CISAW, which I interpret as "See, I saw" which could be Mary Anne's slogan. You do seem to see with perceptive and artistic eyes in this photo and always.

    BTW I'm collecting strange word verification letter combinations. I intend to write a humorous article someday - that illusive someday.

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  22. Like the green frame of leaves for you sky. How lucky you were to get this cloud appearing.

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  23. Good colours. I liked this a lot.

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  24. wonderful sky, very beautiful colors

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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals--that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm & unspoiled when the world praises him.
Honoré de Balzac