Powder Puff Clouds...

"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...

It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now.

But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds,

and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough

to see beyond horizons."

Richard Bach

These clouds were billowing up above the clouds and smoke from the 

Indian Fire at Mono Lake...taken the same day as the fire shots I posted last week..

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Truly...Fire in the Sky...

"It is not light we need, but fire;

it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

Frederick Douglass

Wednesday, I was on my way up to Minaret Vista in the early afternoon

 when I saw a shaft of lightning off in the distance...in the direction of Mono Lake...

I don't know if that shaft of lightning was the one that set off this fire...

but when I went to Mono Lake to do my volunteer thing...

this is what I experienced...

The fire was south east of the lake...burning toward the South Tufa, 

but still a pretty far distance away...

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Our Little Corner of the World...

"Life is full of beauty.  Notice it.  

Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces.

Smell the rain, and feel the wind.

Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."

Ashley Smith

Just another day driving home..."chasing the light"!!!

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Thunderclouds....

Thunder clouds over Bishop California

"We can never have enough of nature.  We must be refreshed by the sight of 

inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with it's wrecks,

 the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, 

the thunder-cloud and the rain."

Henry David Thoreau

Oops!  This is my first Sunday Stills post...and I didn't realize the plan was
to post two of the past challenges...

My first was clouds...
and now my next is from my archives...for blue...

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Our Little Corner of the World...

"The true mystery of the world is the visible;

not the invisible."

Oscar Wilde

Saturday night friends invited us to dinner at their campsite

on the Owens river...

just about 15 minutes from where we live...

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Stormy Weather

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,

you'll never enjoy the sunshine."

Morris West

Morris West was an Australian novelist and playwright...

His best known works were The Devil's Advocate and The Shoes of the Fisherman.

I remember seeing The Devil's Advocate...the one with Al Pacino

playing the Devil...

and I vaguely remember seeing The Shoes of the Fisherman 

with Anthony Quinn...

Do you remember either of these???

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A Provincial Sky???

"Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of a sunset.
Sunsets are quite old fashioned.
To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament.
Upon the other hand, they go on."
Oscar Wilde


I've always known I was an old fashioned girl...


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My Little Corner of the World Again...

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description;

one must travel through one's self to be acquainted with it."

Lord Phillip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

I travelled from my front door to the street for this one...

Just sayin'....

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The Edge of the World...

"Beyond the edge of the world there's a space where emptiness and substance overlap,

where past and future form a continuous, endless loop.

And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read,

chords no one has ever heard."

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

It's been snowing since Tuesday night...

windy, cold and wet snow...and Kelly needed a walk...

I decided to head down 395 to the edge of the snow...

We ended up at Crowley Lake,

but the edge of the snow was still over the ridge...

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Mystic Clouds...

"Go forth under the open sky,

and listen to Nature's teachings."

William C. Bryant

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The Blue Dream of Sky...

"I thank you God for this most amazing day,
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees,
and for the blue dream of sky
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite,
which is yes."
e.e. cummings

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Clouds with a silver lining...

"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold."

Maurice Setter

I have to admit, the other week when the sky was dumping snow on the ground in

the middle of October, I was ticked off.  I grumbled and groused at the fact that just 

that past weekend I had been in flip flops and wearing summer clothes...then 

all of a sudden it was boots, jackets, hats, and gloves...

Then the sun came out...the clouds lingered but didn't drop loads of snow 

anymore and the temperature warmed...

And what a glorious silver lining it was!!!

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It's a Very simple "V" day...

No...it's not "V" day in the traditional sense...

It's simply a Voyage into yesteryear...

with the clouds painting an incredible sky...

Very nice to have you Visit today!!!

Come back tomorrow for a peak into some changes at the 

Chief and Chieftess' Chateau

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Blue skies and a warm afternoon...

Sitting on the deck...reading...two kitties hanging out with me...a glass of wine...

the warm sun surrounding us all with warmth...

what could be better???  

A camera up to my eye checking out the clouds?!!!

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Emerson said it best...

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Amen!!!

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Shadow Play...

The Weekend in Black and White...

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

Michaelangelo

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Skywatch Friday!!!

Skywatch Friday

One of the perks of living in God's country is the gorgeous clouds that frequent the sky...

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Clouds...

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Mono Lake, California


Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.                                                 
                                                                                      Ralph Waldo Emerson

The skies in and around Mammoth are ever changing...brilliant blue skies can almost instantly be transformed by clouds of any kind...wispy, fluffy white, grey and menacing...

Drama at Crowley Lake...

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Crowley Lake, Mono County, CA

One thing that's really amazing about Mono and Inyo Counties...the clouds and blue skies!!!