My Sky- One Week Ago:

Last Friday morning, Tuscany painted me a farewell picture:

The same valley 24 hours before:

Blue Skies in Tuscany
Blue skies in Tuscany,
Distant curving hills,
Cypresses and olive groves...
And flower-strewn rills.

Villas...and oak trees,
Old and evergreen,
Swallowtails that dance the hours;
Small lizards rarely seen.

The Oriole's lone recital
From a shaded bough;
Soft, warm breezes
That waft the cloudlets slow.

Lilac and yellow broom...
A splash of brightest hue;
Large, dark metallic bees
That visit swift and true.

Hot Sun...and strong scents;
The grasshopper that rasps its joy...
Amidst the lilting grasses...
That beckon and alloy.

~Hugh David Loxdale

Sigh. Happy Friday, everyone.

Skywatching at Calf Pasture Beach

Summer daze.

Skywatch Friday is hosted by Tom, Sandy and Imac at their new home Skywatch Friday!

 Please pay them a visit and join us!

Skywatching Over the Harbor

Each of us is in truth an idea of the Great Gull, 

an unlimited idea of freedom.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

-Richard Bach

Skywatch Friday is the Genius of Tom and Jane at Wigger's World.

Pay them a visit and join us!

Skywatching at the Fireworks

Happy Fourth of July to my fellow Americans,

And a wonderful weekend to all my far-flung friends!

Visit Wom Tigley to see all the other Skywatchers and to join us!

Skywatching

Sea-Fever

by John Masefield

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,

And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,

And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life.

To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;

And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,

And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

Visit Wom Tigley to see all the other Skywatchers and to join us!

Skywatch Friday

Contrails keep watch over flapping sails.

Anna Maria Island, Florida

Visit Wom Tigley to see all the other Skywatchers and to join us!

Skywatch Friday

The side benefits of a stormy spring can be manifold.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Lord Byron

Skywatch Friday is the genius of Wom Tigley! 

Pay him a visit.

Vacation Skywatch

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

-James Agee

Skywatch Friday is the genius of Wom Tigley! 

Pay him a visit.