October 26, 2005
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for the sky freaks
Recently on an unrelated message board, one of the regular posters went
off-topic to post some pics he had just captured of some clouds over
the rooftops of his neighborhood, lit by the pastel colors of
sunrise. He identified himself as a “weather freak.” I
reciprocated with one of my favorite sunrise shots (taken by Doug),
…and one I captured, of a sunset. I identified myself as a “sky freak.”
This started a thread in which several other people identified
themselves as weather or sky freaks. Some of them posted photos
and a few of them, who couldn’t quite figure out how to do that,
verbally described their favorite sunrises or sunsets.Of course, there is more to the sky than a sunrise and more to sky or
space weather than just clouds. This aurora photo that Evan Steinhauser
captured last night in the Matanuska Valley is on today’s home page at adn.com.
I can’t do just one of these, so I browsed through the recent aurora gallery and found this one by Bob Hallinan
and this one by Daryl Pederson:
Not yet satisfied, I bopped over to http://spaceweather.com/ and found this one from Norway:
As a bonus, I found this neat animation of Mars retrograde.
God, how I love living on this planet!
Comments (16)
Gorgeous pictures!
I think part of the requirement of being a sky freak is living somewhere that encourages looking up. I started working on this theory when living in Virginia, close enough to the Blue Ridge that looking up was a pleasant thing to do. Not long after coming back to the Detroit area, I realized just how much time I’d spent looking up in VA when I realized there wasn’t much to look up to here.
Beautiful…..
Oh, wow, those are SO absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing them! (((Hugs)))
P.S. So sorry I haven’t been able to comment here at your site sooner. I’m not able to be online as often sometimes, but I try to get around to everyone’s Xanga as soon as I can though. 
Thank you for sharing all you do! 
Ooooooh! Ahhhhhh!
Furthermore, thanks, God–nice F/X!!
And thanx and a tip of the Greyfox fedora to you for fixing my site–I didn’t even know I had fucked it up, still don’t grok how it happened–and the info–and I printed out the shopping list, will get stuff today–probably–if I hear that knives are in.
me too.. and thank you for the pics
Nice shots. It was so much easier to be a sky freak in southern Arizona. Here in Oregon it’s just gray most of the time.
Im A Sky freak.. LOL… those photos are absolutely beautiful, just amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful sunset pics!
All quite lovely.
Yes, I agree, living on this planet is wonderful!
I’m one of those sky fanatics…I love it! Clouds, stars, horizons…everything! These pictures are so breathtakingly beautiful.
Captivatingly lovely….
Those photos are way cool.
Pre-tea pic-chores!
And a new Baby Susu profile pic aswell!
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those are the most fantastic auroras ever. Someday I hope to see them so spectacular. I have only seen them in the blues and green and never so splendent.
gorgeous!
i love when the sky doesn’t look like its ‘usual’ self!
Ijust love the first sky picture…… Lately I have been painting very sunset skies. YOu picture would make a great painting : )