Tag Archives: Sky Scapes

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More Grey … with a Side of Snow

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It started raining and then turned to a very thick, watery snow that began to settle in some places. Here at the valley bottom, it was our first snowfall of the season.

The rainy snow was so dense that the visibility across the lake was quite low.

Since our temperatures have been around 4C (39F), it won’t last, though.

The ducks certainly didn’t mind; their favourite little pond was ice-free!

As I continued my ramble, the snowy rain became more rain-like; it had been a bit of an incongruity since some of the trees are beginning to bud as you can in the picture above.

By the time I arrived back at home, it was back to just plain rain.

Happy Tuesday.

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Grey

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We had a sun break but now it’s a return to the grey although the feature photo shows the effect of evening’s blue hour on the overcast. The daytime photo from below shows how very grey it actually was.

We have snow at the 700 metre (2396 ft) level but none here at the valley bottom.

It’s Monday. It’s grey. But I hope you have a good day anyway.

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Reblog: Das Polarlicht-Ereignis vom 19.01.2026 (3) (The Aurora Event)

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Epilog „…Da braucht man nicht nach Finnland kutschen.;-)“ Für diesen Moment hat derjenige am nächsten Morgen Recht, es war damit kaum zu rechnen, …

Das Polarlicht-Ereignis vom 19.01.2026 (3)

Beautiful captures from Lutz at Radelnder uHu. Please click the link above to see more of his stunning photography.

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Layers

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Although it was reasonably warm out, it was otherwise an extremely windy, rainy and overcast day – seeing across the street was about the most of it – until evening arrived and the weather started to break.

First it was like this …

… but then the cloud layers started to spread …

… and the sun began to peek out.

It was still windy, but a clearing sky was rather wonderful.

Happy Saturday.

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Soft Light

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We have recently had some very soft evening light.

It has been a lovely time of day, windless and calm …

… with some thinish clouds adding a veiled, mellow luminosity.

For a few seconds a strong pinkish tone emerged (this picture is completely unretouched). It was likely caused by light scattering of the blue and violet wavelengths allowing the pink, orange and red wavelengths to illuminate the clouds.

It didn’t last long but was very pretty.

Happy Thursday.

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Walking at Skaha Lake

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As I’ve noted here before, Penticton is situated between two lakes – one at the south end and the other at the north – and is one of only two communities in the world that is so established. The other is Interlaken, Switzerland. For a change of pace I recently decided to take a walk along Skaha which is at the south end.

There was some serious wind coming out of the south causing choppy waters and lots of scudding cloud …

No swimming today!

… but then I realised that we now officially have winter!

The solstice doesn’t just mean that we’re headed in the right (springy!) direction again, it also means that we first have to get through winter.

Skaha Lake marina awaits spring.

And then I remind myself that I’m no longer in Yellowknife where today’s high will be -31C (-24F). I don’t have to wear a parka, shovel snow, slog through snow banks, walk to work in the dark, dark, dark of winter or defrost my eyelashes when I step inside. We have about four to eight more weeks of very mild winter before we will again begin to see the first signs of spring, so what is there to complain about?

Really, not very much!

Happy Monday.

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Reblog: 22 Degree Solar Halo

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We were out at Finn River Farm (in Chimacum, Washington, about 10 miles south of Port Townsend) getting some dinner and were waiting outside. It was …

22 Degree Solar Halo

A stunning solar halo photo from Allan at Allan J Jones Photo Blog. Please click the link above to see more of Allan’s beautiful nature photography.