Thursday, September 30, 2010

Sky Watch Friday!



Time to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by Klaus and the Sky Watch team of Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me. Join us and the many people from all over the world who share theirs with us each week! Click on the icon and sign up today!

There are few places in the world where the skies can go from miserable to glorious and back again in a matter of hours like the ones here in Seattle! Whatever it is that you don't like -- just wait a few hours, they'll change! I decided to use the extra large version that I now have the option to use, just so you could see these shots with a little more clarity than the squeezed down sizes -- even if they do run over the edge a bit! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend surrounded by beautiful skies!!

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.  — Mark Twain




If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.


 If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.  — Mark Twain


Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.  — Mark Twain



 80 percent of life is showing up.  — Mark Twain


Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.  — Mark Twain 


Buy land, I hear they aren't making it anymore.  — Mark Twain
 The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
Mark Twain

75 comments:

  1. such awesome skies, Sylvia. so many great colors, love 'em!

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  2. Amazing variety, Sylvia! I especially like the clabbered look of the fourth one down. Happy Skywatching!

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  3. They are all so very gorgeous Sylvia! Glad you enjoyed our Thursday laugh with us!
    I think my favorite picture is the last on...love that little bit of branch. Feels like I'm sitting on top of the world!
    I will say that the 4th one is a very cool shot...it looks like it should be in a Harry Potter movie :)
    Have a lovely day Sylvia!

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  4. Fantastic skies, Sylvia, the bigger pics look great! I always enjoy the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain. Have a lovely weekend. :)

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  5. Wow - those clouds in big format are gorgeous! Just wonderful!

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  6. Beautiful series of incredible skies Sylvia!
    Have a wonderful day!

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  7. I agree with Clairz. They're all wonderful, but the fourth one down is amazing.

    Kay
    Alberta, Canada

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  8. Lovely pictures depicting the heaven upwards. And to top it all those beautiful two liners from Mark Twain. Thanks Sylvia as ever for this wonderful post. Have a great week end.

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  9. awesome collection. your photos are showcased in all their glory in this new larger format you adopted. i like it bigger.

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  10. Hi Sylvia, formazioni di nuvole fantastiche.
    Felice SW.
    Buona serata :)

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  11. Oh such amazing skies, Sylvia. I gasped at the beauty of the first image, and then did a double take at the second. They are all beautiful. I love the saying If you tell the truth, you never have to remember anything. AMAZING wisdom from Mr Twain! In fact I love all the quotes you've posted. Have blessed day, my friend. Greetings from Jo

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  12. Awesome collection of your skies out there Sylvia !!
    Great job capturing them

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  13. Awesome. The second shot is stunning.

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  14. Great captures, especially the 2nd! WoW!

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  15. lovely varity of of views of the sky in so many differnt moods and colours, thanks for sharing with Sky Watch Friday

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  16. Your photos are fantastic,Sylvia!What a varity of different skies!Thank you for sharing and have a nice weekend!

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  17. Love the Twain quote about not having to remember anything to tell the truth! :) Great skies!

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  18. Hi Sylvia Happy Skywatch. Good piccies as usual my offering is an old piccie as I have been feeling unwell but I am on the mend now. XXX Don

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  19. Seattle sure does seem to take the cake for the most consistently varied skies! Wonderful display as always. Have a great weekend!

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  20. Sylvia these are all absolutely glorious. I always love your shots but these are amongst my all time favorites that you have shown us.

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  21. I'm happy to see that the sky has now gone from gray to blue. Yahoo!

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  22. You ALWAYS capture the most beautiful skies. I love them all :) Have a wonderful day my friend :)

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  23. What a wonderful display of the Seattle skies. I think they are all beautiful in their own way, but, my favorite is the beautiful golden sunset over the ocean. Gorgeous.

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  24. Lovely skies as usual and the election quote was spot-on!

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  25. Absolutely amazing skies! Such a beautifully eclectic collection is week.

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  26. Fantastic skies Sylvia and wonderful quotes! A

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  27. Lovely photos! I think my favorite is the last one, with that lacy tree branch draping so delicately into the dusky sunset. Love the Twain quotes, too.

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  28. Love the Mark Twain quotes. He was the best American writer in my humble opinion. All the photos are lovely. You do a great, great job.

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  29. Awesome series of skywatch photos, Sylvia! The second shot is my favorite, I love the colors. Happy skywatching!

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  30. Beautiful. I especially like #6.

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  31. can't choose which one is best....everthing looks beautiful!

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  32. wonderful skies and great quotes...have a blessed friday to you!

    hugs,
    blue

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  33. You overbet yourself Sylvia! Such a great post!
    Have a beautiful weekend:)
    Hugs

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  34. The last picture is amazing !

    Please have a wonderful Friday and good new month as well.

    daily athens

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  35. gorgeous set of skies! i most especially love the colours of the second and last photo :) have a lovely weekend Sylvia!

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  36. A wonderful set of photos. I especially like that dramatic 4th photo. Thank you...Have a nice weekend.

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  37. That is a stunning series of sky pictures. The size of the photos is awsome.
    Jossie

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  38. These are amazing skies, Sylvia. Fantastic captures.Love the quotes too.

    Have a great weekend.

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  39. I want you to know I have a very clear conscience. :)

    Lovely photos, as always, Sylvia. The clouds add such interest to the sky.

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  40. What glorious skies! They are all beautiful Sylvia!
    Hope you have a great weekend!

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  41. Some beauties there. Have a nice weekend.

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  42. Oh, so wonderful! a breathtaking beauty of the skies here! Have a wonderful Weekend!

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  43. Wooohoo as usual nice series of clouds and the skies! I like them sooo much! Thanks for sharing Sylvia.

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  44. Gorgeous skies, and so much better in the larger format. I think your part of the world has some of the best skies I've ever seen. Have a great weekend, Sylvia!

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  45. Your skies are utterly gorgeous, Sylvia. Thank you.

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  46. Great pictures Sylvia and continued great Mark Twain quotes.

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  47. Wonderful skies ~ love the first one, Sylvia! So dramatic and amazing.
    Mark Twain is such an incredible thinker!
    I'm so glad he shared his wisdom with the world. One of my favorite Mark Twain quotes that I post in my classroom is, "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
    heehee...
    have a great weekend, Sylvia!
    and Thank You for hosting Sky Watch and for the amazing slideshow!
    ~Maria

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  48. Wow!.. variety of sky colours and pattern.
    I love the 4th pic clouds pattern.

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  49. amazing skies. glad you increased the size!

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  50. Sylvia, those clouds are just amazing.

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  51. Super sky sweeps! Have a great weekend!

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  52. stunning skys beautiful clouds

    Happy SWF! Have a good weekend,

    Regards, Bram

    My SkyWatch on WordPress

    Seen on Sky Watch Friday, Season 4, Episode 12

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  53. Beautiful! It is nice that God gave us this word with lots of variety in our skies and seasons.

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  54. amazing collection of sky photos! have a great weekend too, Sylvia! :)

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  55. it is amazing how the sky changes all teh time. Great shots.

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  56. Sylvia, these are gorgeous skies. Every one of them. My favorite has to be the first, though... it's so VERY different and dramatic! (I was planning to post a series too, but work just overtook my time. Haven't had the time to blog a lot. Maybe next week, then.) Enjoy a terrific weekend!

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  57. Beautiful skies and thoughts Sylvia.
    Have a great weekend.
    Costas

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  58. Splendid skies, Sylva, your images are always so beautiful!
    "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything": so true this quote by Mark Twain!
    Happy Friday :-)

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  59. Nice fluffy clouds and beautiful texture! :)

    Have a good weekend.

    Alexander
    Alex's World! - http://www.kakinan.com/alex

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  60. oh, wow! awesome cloud formations! and you've captured them all so beautifully! have a great weekend, Sylvia.

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  61. Rabbit, rabbit.

    Beautiful skies. I want to sleep in the clouds. They look so soft and cushy.

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  62. the first photo looks like an ocean. awesome.

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  63. Beautiful skies Sylvia and I enjoyed the quotes very much. Have a great weekend.
    An English Girl Rambles

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  64. those are awesome shots for Skywatch. love the beautiful quotes.

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  65. Gorgeous shots! Wow, you have a lot of wonderful comments here.

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  66. Beautiful collection of lovely skies and I love all of them. Wishing you a wonderful weekend, Sylvia, and Thanks for visiting my Sky Watch Friday

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  67. I didn't realize how similar Seattle weather was to Tennessee weather! I really like all these beautiful sky pictures. The colors in your sunset pictures are gorgeous.

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  68. beautiful skies -- for a minute I thought that broken sky one was snow. Looks all topsy-turvy. all wonderful shots.

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