Skywatch Friday

Hudson River from the grounds of the Vanderbilt mansion, Hyde Park, NY

Here is my photo  for the weekly photo meme called ” Skywatch Friday”.

We spent a fall weekend visiting the area of Hyde Park, New York .   The photo above is on the grounds of the Vanderbilt mansion.  From the edge of the mansion’s property we could see this  beautiful view of the Hudson river and the panorama of the New York mountain ranges  in the distance is breathtaking.

You won’t want to miss the opportunity to visit one or more of the  National Historic sites including  Vanderbilt mansion , Franklin  D. Roosevelt National Historic site, included his Presidential Library and Museum.

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Skywatch Friday, Season 5 Episode 32

Tour De Somerville, Blue Skies, and the crowd awaits the start of the race!

Skywatch Friday is a photo meme of  the sky through your eyes.  The sky is the limit to the possibilities. It is all up to you  to dream up an image and Create it!!

Weights and Measure, Life is in the hands of Balance.

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. – Norman Vincent Peale.

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Skywatch Friday, Season 5, Episode 21

at the summit of Mt Equinox in Sunderland, Vermont

Mt Equinox is one of the highest mountains in southern Vermont.   At an elevation of 3,848 feet , it is the Highest peak in the Taconic Mountain range.

The Green Mountains, The Valley of Vermont and the White Mountains of New Hampshire may be seen to the east.
Adirondack Mountains of New York provide the backdrop to the west, and the Taconic and Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts to the south.    Guard rails have been installed almost the entire length of the drive making it one of the safest, best engineered, well constructed toll roads in the country.   There are many vistas and areas for picniking  along the 5.2 mile drive, which has a vertical gain of 3,248 feet to the summit.

I’m participating in Skywatch Friday photo meme.   Please share your photos of the sky from where you live or where you’ve traveled.

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Skywatch Friday

Skywatch Friday is a meme to share your view of the sky with everyone in the world!

Today is called “Black Friday”, symbolizing the day after Thanksgiving day sales. Here is my creative interpretation for Black Friday. There are hundreds of birds resting in the tree branches; This is the time the birds fly south and they’ve chosen our home for their respite.

Black birds on black Friday

Starlings Silhouette

For those of the Skywatch Friday group living in the USA, enjoy your day off! Have a great weekend. Looking forward to browsing everyone’s sky.

Skywatch Friday, Episode 5 Week 11 and Why is the sky blue?

Why is the Sky blue?

Sunlight interacting with the Earth’s atmosphere makes the sky blue. In outer space the astronauts see blackness because outer space has no atmosphere. Sunlight consists of light waves of varying wavelengths, each of which is seen as a different color. The minute particles of matter and molecules of air in the atmosphere intercept and scatter the white light of the sun. A larger portion of the blue color in white light is scattered, more so than any other color because the blue wavelengths are the shortest. When the size of atmospheric particles are smaller than the wavelengths of the colors, selective scattering occurs-the particles only scatter one color and the atmosphere will appear to be that color. Blue wavelengths especially are affected, bouncing off the air particles to become visible.

I am participating in the photo meme called Skywatch Friday.

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Skywatch Friday, Season 5, Episode 10 It’s my Birthday

skyline at Island Beach State park !

a fisherman's life. Island Beach State park

Here’s my year in pictures, September 16, 2011

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Skywatch Friday, Season 5, Episode 7

Chicago skyline reflected in "The Bean".

Friday, welcomes the weekly event of “Skywatch Friday.

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We recently spent two days of our vacation in “the Windy City” of Chicago.   There is so much to see and do, that we had to select from one or two of  our ideas.  millenium Park was very close to the Chicago Fine Arts museum.   After parking in an underground parking garage, we crossed Michigan Avenue where we could see  the throngs of people walking to the great “LalaPolooza music festival that was going to take place all day and night.

Michigan Avenue cross walk, the sky and buildings in Chicago

The Tower fountain in Millenium Park  is composed of brick and has digital photo images of one face that gradually fades and changes into another every few minutes.   We stayed there for many  minutes watching all the people, especially children , running and splashing through the overflow of the fountains’ water.

The "face" in the Tower Fountain!

Oh, to be young and carefree like this to run through the fountain's water!

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Skywatch Friday, Season 5 Episode 2

Skywatch Friday:

Once again, it’s time to share with the world an image or two of the sky.

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Blue skies on Bill Hill farm, Vermont

The everexpanding tree contrasts  to the sinking fence, a growing family vs  the letting go of life, a mirror on life. July 22, 2011“i thank god for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees & for the blue dreams of sky & for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
— E.E. Cummings

 

 

“time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough”
— E.E. Cummings

Skywatch Friday, season 4, Episode 48

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This is another photo of our visit to the beach in mid May of this year.   I was pleasantly surprised to learn of this pier on the other side of Seaside Park.

Instead of continuing on the main road, I asked my hubby to make a left and see where the road goes;  once we took a drive up and down the roads of both summer rental homes and those of year round ownership we came out along the other side of Seaside park to find this lovely view.

 

Pink and blue swirled sunset

Skywatch Friday and great grilling recipes

The Seashore sky at Island Beach state park .

I just love all the seagulls flying and swooping down to the beach.    This is a continuation of photos (previous post Scenic Sunday).

It was great to have  a warm enough day to enjoy a stroll along the beach in the month of May; alas the water is still yet cold to go swimming unless you’re a polar bear.