After the storm 1

So, yesterday I was snap-happy again. I've got a lot on today, but I'd like to share just some of the many pictures with you... (the rest I will post bit-by-bit!)

In the morning, I missed the first amazing sky-scenes, as I found that my watch was on a go-slow just before 9am, and we were all running really late for the school run... so, leaving the camera sitting confused and alone on the seat inside the door, we made the last-minute dash! All the way, looking out the car windscreen, I willed the beautiful scene to hold... just long enough for me to drop off the kids and get back. Well, of course it didn't stay the same- what did I expect!

So, on my return, the first thing I did was grab the camera from it's sulking place, and whip out the door again... leaving the poor dogs wondering, "what the hell is that mad-woman's doing now!?!"

Just caught the tail-end of this sweeping, swirling cloud in a dark blue, freshly cleaned sky:

Is it a rabbit?... or a dog?
...what do you see here, jumping over the roof-tops?

This one was much wider, and originally looked like
someone had got a giant paintbrush and swept it across the sky!

Then, I was clearing the boys' room , and looked out the upstairs window as the sun came out from behind the cloud. Luckily the camera wasn't too far away, so I swung the window open, just in time to capture this mini rainbow (Quasar9 did a post on these a little while ago, so he'd know what they're called!) gleaming in the clouds:

Close up... can't see blues and greens... just like a mini-sunset

Then, later I was heading down to the coast to see Julia, and stopped the car to snap up these two shots:

Think this one looks like an old-fashioned quill pen,
dipping into a pot of pure-white ink...