Slim pickin’s today. The light and color was nice on Moody Bridge Road in Hadley for about 5 minutes, then the sky closed, turned gray and the light went flat. I then drove up to Ashfield and Bear Swamp, but by the time I got there it was raining in addition to thick fog. I hiked a bit, got wet and didn’t see anything that said “take me”.
So here is an image that I grabbed in Hadley while I could. I crossed half way through a hay field (fortunately it was recently cut) to get to this point with the “sun” rising behind the trees and a bit of color in the sky. This is a ditch moving through the field. Last year I fell in and lost a lens cap for my rented Zeiss 21. This year I was smarter and stayed on this side. 🙂
The rest of today will be spent moving as much as I can to an external, that I just formatted clean, so all will be prepared for the arrival of the Puget on Monday. Hopefully I won’t be offline too long.
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I like this shot very much. I must hurry along with my comments. No electricity since this past Thursday at 6:45 pm when high winds and hail bombarded our town. So glad to have power again.
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What a pain, Yvonne, to be without power. I hope you at least had water. Take care.
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Lack of electricity is quite an inconvenience. I am glad you got it back, Yvonne. A few years ago we had a freak Halloween snowstorm that knocked out ours for a week. Lost food and cold showers. At least we had a woodstove to heat our food.
Thanks for liking the photograph.
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I find the colour palette rather pleasing Steve. It probably lacks a little something – a Fringed Gentian perhaps – but maybe there is one buried in the ditch with your lens cap 😉
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Thanks, Andrew. I’ll have to look more carefully.
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Great colour in the sky I haven’t seen that purple for a long time, great shot.
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Thanks, Ben. We are blessed with a few colors at times. Usually more towards the pink or crimson hues.
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Had you not had this Hadley picture, you would indeed have been had by Hadley. Good save.
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Sometimes you leave me speechless, Steve. 🙂
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I’ve noticed your lavender skies in several photos. If the color is true, and not a function of my monitor, it’s a color I rarely see here. I wonder why that is. Perhaps your higher latitude? I’ll have to look more closely and see if I can spot some here. In the meantime, this is a lovely, unusual view. I like the “fish scale” clouds.
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I can’t explain why the various colors display themselves under different conditions, Linda. We do get lavender skies, although I think the tendencies of my camera’s sensor may have a little to do with that as well as my choices in processing.
I believe the clouds are described as “Mackerel”.
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Another real beauty to add to your recent streak! Good luck with the new machine! I’m sure you’ll be up and running in no time at all. D
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Thanks, David. Arrives tomorrow. I am not sure exactly what my course of action will be. Probably my usual pants seat strategy.
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Always best to stay out of ditches, I have found. 🙂 This terrain reminds me of a place I go, only under duress, because it is creased with swales from the glacier, that are hidden by tall sharp vegetation. AAAARGH!
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Cattails and purple loosestrife are OK here, but ditches are no place for a face plant. 🙂
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Haha! Good one 🙂
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