Clouds

Wednesday 4th June 2008
As I have said before (Boringly, wearisomely, tediously, and ad infinitum, I hear you cry) I love the cloud effects that are visible all around GB’s, here on Lewis. Here are just a few examples in the space of half an hour this evening.

Clouds

Saturday, 31st May 2008
Coming back from Stornoway a most unusual cloud could be seen. A dirty black colour it wisped across the airport, looking for all the word like smoke. Indeed, I was so convinced it was smoke I was sure I could smell it. Mind over matter! It turned out to be a low cloud that spread right along Broad Bay and over Point behind Upper Bayble. By the evening it was rolling in towards us from the mainland as well.

Clouds, a Letter Box and a Blue Whale’s jaw

Tuesday 27th May, 2008
The clouds as we drove through Brue were highly photogenic. The cloudscapes are as exciting as the landscapes when you are somewhere with such open views as exist on Lewis.




At Bragar we stopped to photograph the letterbox at the Post Office. A “Ludlow” box, it is an example I have not seen before so I shall have ro add it to my webpages.



Also at Bragar, outside Lakefield House, once the home of the post master, Murdo Morrison, is an arch made of the jawbones of a Blue Whale which was found in a nearby bay in 1920, floating, dead, with a harpoon in its back. The jaws are each 25 feet long and together weigh about four tons. The apex of the arch is about 20 feet off the ground. The harpoon now forms part of the whalebone arch and its full history can be seen on
http://www.ceats.org.uk/Whalebone.htm

Clouds and no clouds

Sunday 25th May 2008



Despite heavy clouds first thing this morning the sky cleared by mid-day and there was not a cloud to be seen in the whole sky for the rest of the day. The term ‘whole sky’ may seem a starnge one but here one can go out of the house and by walking around it the horizon is visible in every direction; unlike at home where trees and buildings block all but a central disc of sky.

Clouds

Sunday 25th May 2008

 
Not such a sunny start to the day. Not every cloud has a silver lining - a bit like life really….

A day at home with the clouds

Friday 16th May 2008


A cloudy start to the day but the mainland was nevertheless visible in parts.



In the afternoon the sun came out and the sea turned its deepest blue again.






This is not a cat! It is a window ornament…



And in the evening the heavier clouds rolled in again.



I could just sit and watch the clouds all day. With the ever-changing sea and sky a man would have to be pretty devoid of soul to fail to appreciate views like this.