Sky Watch Friday N:o 38 - Grey skies and the last of winter

Sky Watch Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Wren, Ivar, Sandy, Louise, Fishing Guy and Klaus. It's extremely popular and presents some really fabulous skies around the world. To view and participate click on the above banner.

Here's the last edition of my colour scheme skies. It's spring and the rivers run free, the snow has melted away, the first wild flowers are flowering and the leafbuds are swelling up everywhere. However some of these shots are from two and three weeks ago.








Can you make out the sun. It's just up there. I'm pointing to it.

A big thankyou to the whole Sky Watch team.

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Sky Watch Friday N:o 31 - Urban skies

We've had very changeable wheather during the past week and I thought it would be nice to display a series of shots of how the sky over my place of residense has looked in all its variety.


Thick fog


Pale with just a hint of colour


Menacing clouds


Blue as it can be


Blue but clouding over


Pink dreams


Saturated with pink

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Linnut ... Birds

Ylhäisessä yksinäisyydessään ... Solo in a wintery sea



Sorsien elämää talvella ... Duck life in winter



















Varpuset ... Sparrows

Talviset puut ja pensaat ... Trees and shrubs in winter

Lumiset oksat ... Snow clad branches


Sumuverhon takaa ... Behind the fog curtain


Vanha Terijoen salava ... An old Crack Willow tree


Lajitelma kirkkaalla pakkassäällä ... A mixture during a clear and cold spell


Komea kuusi ... A handsome Spruce


Auroran puistosta (en tiedä mikä puu) ... From the Aurora park (don't know what tree)


Lisää Auroran puiston puustoa ... More from the Aurora park


Alkanut muuttua ontoksi ... Hollowing out process has begun


On jo puoliksi ontto rungoltaan ... Nearly hollowed out half way up


Tikka raiskannut tämän männyn ... A woodpecker has 'raped' this pine tree


Vanhuuttaan kaatunut mänty ... This pine fell out of old age


Katajaryhmä ... A group of Junipers


Kuuraiset puunlatvat ... Frosted tree tops


Merenrannan pajunkissat ... Pussy Willows at the seaside


Ruusunmarjat ... Fruits of a rose bush


Vihreä oksainen pensasryhmä ... A group of green branched shrubs


Lepän kuuraiset 'riipukkeet' ... The frosted catkins of an Alder tree

Sky Watch Friday N:o 29 - From Russia with love

Should you wonder about the title this week it has a reason and it is...

Tonight after work I was very tired due to a couple of nights partial insomnia. After having walked and fed the dogs and a few household chores I crashed on the sofa in front of the telly. Next thing I know is I come to life with my head on the cushions to a familiar tune. Dum dum du du dum dum dum. Dum dum du du dum dum dum. Taadaa tadaa. The Bond film 'From Russia with love' with the still one and only Sean Connery was just starting. This made me think of my picture video of my lovely Ljuba, a russian rescue, with the same title.

The skies have been rather non descipt lately but tonigth it was clear and many stars were twinkling above. This is due to winds from the east, ie. Russia, bringing colder and clearer wheather in their toll.

So the title has a double meaning.

There is a few sky shots this week too but I felt it would be nice to post a video as well this week. Even if it does feature my rescue girl it has a few glimpsies of sky in the background, so it's not completely unapropriate for this meme either.

First to a few moods from the past week.

Very, very grey even with lighter stripe at the tree line. Here is a channel between islands and there ususally is a bit of a stream and constant under current. Due to this the water is not frozen all over. I took the shot standing on a bridge.


Still grey but slightly brighter. A hooded crow is parching on one of the birch tree branches.


A blue(ish) moment


The wind makes a tear in the clouds for a little while.


Yesterday the sky at dusk took on a nice pink tone

Then to the main reason for this week's title:



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Utuinen aamu ... Misty morn

Pystyyn kuollut ja latvaton ... Died standing and topless


Pystyyn kuollut ja kallellaan kuin Pisan torni ... Died standing and leaning like the tower of Pisa


Utuinen laakso ... Mist in the valley


Merisumu on nielaissut horisontin ... Sea mist has engulfed the horizon
Kaksi yksinäistä pilkkimiestä heikoilla jäillä ... Two lonely ice fishers out on weak ice