cloud day #239 30th December 2014

Thicker cloud today and there have been some showers. Wind also. Aah summer in Auckland!

cloud day #238 29th December 2014

A quintessential summery sky with white and blue, almost Greek colours. Pity about the raging easterly!

cloud day #237 28th December 2014

Softly softly catchee evening light....

cloud day #236 27th December 2014

A sky of lavender blue and grey, at times merging, other times a contrast with light blue. Soft evening light.

cloud day #235 26th December 2014

Floating islands, and some grey...accompanied by strong easterlies for the past few days. When oh when will they cease?

cloud day #234 25th December 2014

An evening shot for Christmas Day night...a spectacular sunset, tonight.

cloud day #233 24th December 2014

Lots of white,  the merest glimpse of blue...

cloud day #232 23rd December 2014

This image belies the hot day we had today, and the oftentimes blue sky...

cloud day #231 22nd December 2014

A swirly twirly sky (well, sort of), after a lovely day (yay)...

cloud day #230 21st December 2014

Cloudy again, although warm, and at times sunny today, albeit with the typical Auckland 'four seasons in one day' ubiquitous drizzle, as accompaniment.

cloud day #229 20th December 2014

Oh dear, look at this greyness, obliterating the light, like a suffocating blanket!

cloud day #228 19th December 2014

The one thing that makes a Friday better, is a sunny Friday...we are overdue one of these that's for sure. The heat is a surprise coming on the back of grey, drizzly, windy days that were for most part cold.

cloud day #227 18th December 2014

Ahhh, at last some blue! Not really enough, or sustained, for a feeling of summer, but blue nonetheless, not to be scoffed at that's for sure, after what we have endured the last couple of weeks!

cloud day #226 17th December 2014

More of the same, but worse what with the constant gale winds knocking baby fruit off the trees and thunder and lightning and rain...the sun was out a couple of hours ago as a tease, and then promptly retreated under the next onslaught of grey...

cloud day #225 16th December 2014

Sigh. The sky is getting same-y now, and everybody is getting cranky because of the infernal unrelenting wind (make that gales). Summer this is not.

cloud day #224 15th December 2015

More of the same, of that which has characterised the past week...

cloud day #223 14th December 2014

Any earlier today, and this would not have been the picture. Cold, blustery strong easterly winds and rain have characterised most of the day until this! If you look closely there is a faint reflection of the rainbow to the left. Magic.

cloud day #222 13th December 2014

Again, lots of cloud although more definition in today's sky. Drizzly and cold.

cloud day #221 12th December 2014

This must be day four, or five, that we have had these glowering skies with not a peep of sun. It's up there somewhere cos it's darned humid, but there are no rays to bask in, just endless grey/white...

cloud day # 220 11th December 2014

Yet another dismal, drizzly, dull grey day - and shockingly humid.

cloud day #219 10th December 2014

Yes, that's right, it's summer...an Auckland-style summer, where wall-to-wall sun doesn't happen until we are all back at work...!

cloud day #218 9th December 2014

Dull, dismal, misty, humid, drizzly.

cloud day #217 8th December 2014

A diagonal 'whoosh', as if blown, under force, from a powerful source of propulsion...and background layers for interest ;)

cloud day #216 7th December 2014

There's a lovely warp and weft weave in the sky, like a mini loosely woven square...

cloud day #215 6th December 2014

Blue, and white, does anything else count?

cloud day #214 5th December 2014

Variations on a theme, this past week!

cloud day #213 4th December 2014

Look at the painterly effects in this shot - the bruising colour in the upper cloud, smudged, with the contrast of the white clouds underneath. Wonderful stuff.

cloud day #212 3rd December 2014

Not a bad day today, nice clouds, some warmth, a promise of calmer weather ahead...

cloud day #2112nd December 2014

No clouds today aka cloudless :)

cloud day #210 1st December 2014

For the first day of December, a stunning vivid blue interspersed with white. Looks lovely up there - on the ground it's a somewhat different story with a cool southwesterly...

cloud day #209 30th November 2014

If you are interested in making seasons arbitrary, then today is meant to be the last day of spring. Note the heavier clouds on the hills, sitting on top of them actually, and the fine cirrus above, or may be they are broken up cumulus. Dunno. A less wet more sun version of yesterday.

cloud day #208 29th November 2014

The penultimate day of November is cloudy, with a chance of....showers. In other words, typically spring in Auckland with equal amounts of sun and rain and a fair smattering of wind to go with...

cloud day #207 28th November 2014

I like it when the images produce a 3D effect...these clouds seemingly floating past, almost touchable.

cloud day #206 27th November 2014

Layers of violet, cerulean blue, cornflower, baby blue - there are many descriptions for the hues of blue there are!

cloud day #205 26th November 2014

More space today, the monotone has broken up, into distinctly different hues of blue and white clouds, thick in places, not-so-thick in others. I prefer this to yesterday's!

cloud day #204 25th November 2014

Another misty sky, mist hanging around the hills making for autumnal vibes. Humid. Not much demarcation in the clouds which invariably signals rain.

cloud day #203 24th November 2014

This is an atmospheric sky, reminiscent of a London, or San Francisco fog. Except the hills are still visible. There is a fine, light, drizzly spray. Not enough to call rain.

cloud day #202 23rd November 2014

Cloudless blue, save for a thinly spread line above the hills, bottom right, hovering...

cloud day #201 22nd November 2014

Clouds floating by, a bit of rain around today not that it's evident from this image...

cloud day #200 21st November 2014

This is a momentous post - number 200. I have made it thus far, and had I realised what a commitment blogs are, I might have thought twice! (and this is just a small one)...

cloud day #199 20th November 2014

A purply-blue sky, with upswept wisps and floating cottonwool. What's not to like?

cloud day #198 19th November 2014

Larger fluffs than yesterday, floating away, so close, almost touchable...

cloud day #197 18th November 2014

At last, more blue sky with wisps of white...

cloud day #196 17th November 2014

Back to cloud, thick cloud, grey and white cloud, rain cloud - no matter which way you look....sigh...

cloud day #195 16th November 2014

A warmer day today, and altogether more friendly. Random non-threatening clouds with blue, yay!

cloud day #194 15th November 2014

Thi image looks as though it ha been done through monochrome, but it hasn't (not knowingly anyway!). A grim day today with rain, wind, stormy.

cloud day #193 14th November 2014

Thicker, or more cloud evident today, even though it is slightly less rugged weather-wise, to what it has been earlier in the week. Hopefully the southerly will completely disappear by tomorrow ;)

cloud day #192 13th November 2014

Again, today the sky belies the true state of the weather we are experiencing on the ground. A cold bitter southerly (sort of refreshing) that you wouldn't think possible looking at this sky!

cloud day #191 12th November 2014

It's been a day of contrasts today. One minute, fast and furious wind and rain - the next, sun. Not especially warm sun unless you are behind glass however. Fabulous clouds here resting atop the hills.

cloud day #190 11th November 2014

In contrast to the last few days, here is a familiar picture! I seem to have posted so many of these of late...get prepared for bad weather!