Above St. Marys Lake, Estes Park, Colorado.

Maldives.......

The landscape of landed houses with red roofs on the left and public flats on the right.

The .massive clouds forming above the 2 estates.

Wooltack Point, Jack Sound and Skomer on a crisp winter's afternoon.

Kołobrzeg

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Low sun & clouds in Santa Clara, Calif.. in the late Winter/early Spring.

Taken from Ecclefechan, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.

Nacreous are one of the most beautiful of all cloud formations, but they are also the most destructive to our atmosphere. Their presence encourages the chemical reactions that break down the ozone layer, which acts as an essential shield protecting us from the most harmful of the sun's rays.

Also known as "mother-of-pearl clouds", nacreous clouds exhibit spectacular iridescent pastel colours, caused by the sunlight diffracting as it passes around their tiny ice crystals.

Since they form much higher than common clouds - at altitudes of between 12 and 15 miles - nacreous clouds are most apparent around sunrise and sunset when their colours stand out against the darkened sky. The stratosphere is extremely dry, compared with the cloud-filled lower atmosphere, so the air needs to be very cold indeed for any ice crystals to be able to form there.

Nacreous clouds only appear when stratospheric temperatures are below -83C.

hotel across from ground zero

Yesterday was such a clear sunny day, then out of nowhere this strange cloud appeared.

:-)

Simon

Maroubra Beach

Up there. Looking up at Buno Bonnevaux airfield

Noctilucent and Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds over Luce Bay.

Simple days watching the clouds come over the mountains & then float away ....... :) sigh

Cielo de Huelva desde la Casa Colón

Storm clouds appeared at dusk, though the worst of the storms didn't arrive until early the following morning. A massive change in the weather, from 30C down to about 18C, & my parched garden has had rain on it at last.

Lofoten Islands

Road Scene

Le nuvole corrono sotto il Balcone d'Italia, la Sighignola...

There are many things light represents in life. But one is common to almost every one. It is hope.

En el ex Aeropuerto de Cerrillos, en Santiago.

Beautiful sunset following a recent hail storm that flooded parts of Melbourne.

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Explore #251 on Thursday, November 13, 2008

When it was established sixty years ago, the Xingu Indigenous Park, larger than Israel, was surrounded only by rudimentary cattle raising, but now it is surrounded by intensive, pesticide-dependent farming.