Skywatch Friday

OK, I went and took a photo for you just now....8am Friday morning in Australia...and all the glorious cloud that I saw earlier on my walk (and didn't take a camera didI?) had retreated to just over the sun! Great for taking a photo! OK...now you have seen today's photo you may leave if you wish...or you could stay around for just another minute and look at some glorious sky shots from my week!

And here is a sunset I found on my camera from the other night...

This photo above was taken in Melburne out my bedroom window early one morning. I don't know, but there is just something about it that I quite like...maybe it is because it is very plain and simple!

Do you know where I was when I took this...I was in a queue at the garage (petrol station) waiting for my turn...there was a queue because the price was relatively cheap early in the week, 133 cents a litre instead of 143 cents a litre. I know it isn't dear compared to the US...but it is fairly expensive for us! I was actually trying to work out whether the tree was a silky oak or not, but the sun was so bright I couldn't see whether it was flowering or not!

a photo from my home...

and one from the university, or on the way out to the university while I was waiting at a traffic light maybe.

one from one of my morning walks....you can see we have had quite nice skies in the mornings..then it has been coming over cloudy later!

another out at the university. I was encouraged by David McMahon (authorblog) who said not to be afraid of shooting into the sun...I am so glad he said that... cos I do it all the time!

at the university I drove down to the river on the way home to see if the jacarandas were out down there...they were not...so I took a photo of this new-ish bridge instead! They built it to take buses across to t he university from the south side.

The University of Queensland is quite the prettiest place. Made of sandstone from Helidon at the just below Toowoomba and the Great Dividing Range. The reason I went out there is that I wanted to see if they had a copy of David McMahon's book Vegemite and Vindaloo...which they did, in the Fryer Library where I had to sit and read it ...wasn't allowed to borrow it! It was quite good...what small portion I read of it!

This is a shot of the oldest section of the original building...all the buildings when I went there (a long time ago...not saying how long) looked like this arranged around in a quadrangle...well, a semi-circle. Nowadays it has been built out by all sorts of modern looking buildings. Not to mention multi story car parks. I had to drive right up to here to get you a photo. Didn't think my scanning a tiny picture for you, that I took in black and white when I studied there, would be the same! As you see there is some sky in that photo, in contrast to the one before!

And another skywatch from my morning walk this morning! There was quite a pretty patch of cloud there, and it was quite difficult to get a photo of it without power lines and bus stops etc.

ditto this morning (Thursday)

and I will leave you with this one...(there is some sky there)...hope you have enjoyed my skywatch week from South East Queensland!


If you would like to see more skywatch entries, please go to...the new blog for Skywatch http://skyley.blogspot.com/