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On Monday

The day started fine with wispy clouds in a bright blue sky.
However in the space of one hour clouds started rolling in, travelling south easterly.

I expected the works, rain, hail, thunder and lightening. (smog, family joke from Bugs Bunny Does Opera)
The sky though, while showing its potential just moved on to another part of the country.
It was still a sight to see.
Happy Sky Watching to you all.

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Sky Watch is the brain child of Dot and Tom. They have given countless hours of pleasure,
to thousands of people from all around the world.

Both have moved on to pastures new and a team of volunteers continue to monitor and assist
in the running of this meme.

Thank you for your unstinting work.

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Under false pretences.

The weather here for the last week has been lovely, dry and hot with clear blue skies.
While great to look at hardly inspiring Sky Watching.
However the week before I saw these clouds at 6pm and thought that the wind had done
a good job on fluffing them up.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

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Thanks go to Dot and Tom for the inspiration in creating Sky Watch and to the many other volunteers for their
ongoing support and assistance in maintaining the meme.

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Scotland.

Same holiday as last week.



When we first started visiting Perthshire, the trees in the garden of third picture top right, were only saplings.
The property owner used to leave the front door open on mild evenings and the light from the house shone down
the garden where the sheep grazed.
The sheep are no longer in sight and the garden has matured considerably.
It is one of my favourite views.

These are general photos of Lock Tay, taken by Lord L ( also known as my other half )
The Ram stood like this for about 3 minutes. Bet there is a fair amount of wool waiting to be gathered on him.
We both enjoy holidaying in this part of Scotland. I read a report that life expectancy is longer in Scotland.
Not surprising when there is so much wonderful scenery and fresh air.

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If you read about the Asperatus Cloud two entries back. You may recall some of the information was quoted from staff at The Cloud Appreciation Society. You may like to click on the Cloud Appreciation Society link in the side bar on the right.
Dancin' from In The Pink kindly has enrolled us both as members, which I thank her for .

Sky Watch was initiated by Dot and Tom. The success of the meme speaks for its self.
Thanks to them for the concept and design of the programme.
Many more volunteers have since joined in the running and monitoring of Sky Watch and give their time and support freely.
Thank you .

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Welcome to Scotland


As you will see we were in Scotland last week.

The views can be enlarged by clicking on the picture and I promise is worth doing.

1) Lock Tay from under the bridge at Kenmore, Perthshire.

2) This is where you need to enlarge the picture,
Ben Nevis the highest mountain in Scotland with snow on and as close as I could get .

3) Evening mists roll in.

4) Speedboat on the Tay.

5)Reflections.

6) The end of Lock Tay.


Pictures 4 &5 were taken by Lord L ( my other half)
The remainder I took. We had a fantastic holiday
Wall to wall nature and lots of photographs to remind us of the views.

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Time is given freely and all sites are monitored.
Thanks to all these people for their time and energies.

Health and Safty Cuts

Pictures top left and lower right are of a tree in Scotland, taken two years ago.
We visited again last week to find the Health and Safty team had chosen their cuts.
I wondered just how long it had taken those branches to grow.
On a positve note however there is an increase in regeneration of trees in the area.

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Time flies, not as quickly as these clouds though.
This was the sunset over home last Monday.



In the Sunday Telegraph May 31, there were newly published pictures of spectacular skies,
visit telegraph.co.uk/pictures.

The Science Correspondent Richard Gray, I quote, wrote about the apparent discovery of a previously
undocumented phenomenon.
An unusual storm formation spotted across the world by a collection of enthusiastic amateurs
could be the first new cloud type officially identified in more than half a century.

It was noticed only because of the efforts of the Cloud Appreciation Society,
whose Cloudspotter's Guide became a surprise bestseller three years ago.
Forming a dark lumpy blanket across the sky, the cloud form has been sighted above the Scottish
Highlands and Snowdonia in Wales, on the American prairies, over the mountains of New Zealand
and the Arctic seas off Greenland.

"Its a bit like looking at the surface of a choppy sea from below," said Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of
the society.
He first identified the cloud, named "asperatus"from the Latin for rough, from photographs that
were being sent in by society members.
"We try to identify and classify all the images of clouds we get in, but there were some that just didn't
seem to fit in any of the other categories, so I began to think it might be a unique type of cloud" he said.

Experts at the Royal Meteorological Society are now attempting to have the aspertus officially added to the
International Cloud Atlas,the recognised system of names used by forecasters to identify clouds.
If they succeed, it will be the first new variety classified since 1953.

The spectacular pictures of asperatus clouds shown in the paper were taken above
Hanmer Springs in New Zealand, Schiehallion in Perthshire Scotland and Cedar Rapids,Iowa USA.

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Dot and Tom founded Sky Watch Friday.
Thanks to them for making us take note of what wonderful things are going on around us.

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Thanks are given to them all for their long hours and dedication.

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It seems like five minutes since I last joined all the participants posting for Sky Watch.

These are the afternoon skies over Lincolnshire today.
First view is the river Slea which is all shades of green .
Just in case you did not recognise the view, its just out side my bowls club.
It has been warm and sunny with lots of clouds racing past today.
The second picture is the swing bridge which I included, as is was raised for maintenance work today.
I understand that the drive is on to prepare the river to accept canal boats.

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Sky Watch, a meme originating from Dot and Tom, is a place where people share their sky views from around the world.
Dot and Tom have moved on to pastures new.
There are however a dedicated team of volunteers, who visit each post and monitor the integrity of the meme.
My thanks to all of you.

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Its that time of the week again when we all share the pleasures of Sky Watching from around the world.

This weeks entry has been provided by Lord L.
This is because I have spent time getting my computer mended and operational again.
Thank you Lord L, also known as my other half.

We had our daughter and her two pups( pups=affectionate name) staying with us for the week.
The pups were so well behaved and we accompanied them on various walks about our village.

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Sky Watch a meme originating with Dot and Tom has entertained hundreds of people across the world.
It has dedicated team members who give their time, monitoring and running a seam free theme.
Thank You all.

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Today's sky watch comes from my guest Lord L and his memories of a photographic Safari he took, while living in Kenya.

Mount Kilimanjaro lies in the borders of Tanzania and eastern Africa, with Kenya to the North.

The Mount consists of consists of three inactive volcanic cones ( peaks) rising to 15100 feet, above the
plains of the Serengeti.

In the foreground are Thompson's gazelle.

In 2007 is was noted that the Ice glaciers which cap Mount Kilimanjaro were slowly retreating due
to a reduction in snow fall.

For once global warming was not attributed as the cause.

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This meme was the concept of Dot and Tom. It has given many people lots of pleasure.
There are a team of people monitoring and assisting the smooth running of Sky Watch Friday.
Thanks are given to them for their hard work.

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Skies while Traveling about my County.

It is worth while clicking on the picture to enlarge it.

1) Royal Air Force Officer Training Flying School at Cranwell. Hangers and airfields.
Prince's Charles and William trained to fly here.

2 and 3) Crows queue up to mob gardens for bird food. Bowledover's birds diner
had just opened.

4 and 6) Oil Seed Rape crops in the Lincoln City environs. The county is full of this crop.
Some times Flax is grown in the fields next to the Rape.
As Flax has a wonderful blue flower , the contrast is lovely and cooling against the
fierce yellow of rape.

5) Apple Blossom. The birds raid this tree and some times I see them staggering around
as the fermented apple catches up with them.



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Sky Watch has been running for some time now.
Dot and Tom were the people who founded this meme.
Since then many volunteers have continued its success.
My thanks to them all for their unstinting work.