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| I know it has been awhile since I've posted but I wanted to get back in there. I wanted to come back and join in Sky Watch Friday. These were taken at Sarasota Bay Front Park, right during sunset. The Ringling Bridge in the background connects the mainland to Bird Key, St Armand's Circle and Longboat Key. |
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| It seems every photo I took gave me another look. |
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| I tried to get closer, and closer it was such a beautiful sky... |
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| Clouds always make for an interesting sunset... |
This has always been a favorite photo of how our summer storms come in from the east. The contrast between the white sand of Siesta Beach and the black clouds are startling.
This is more like the springtime in Florida, not much rain this time of year...
Nice view! 
While dining out if Florida, it's always a pleasure to side outside with a beautiful water view...
...or maybe they come to enjoy the view too.
Sharing this with all those who are not afraid to Sky Watch Friday and look up! Check them out!
When I first discovered Sky Watch Friday I was thrilled because I always have my eye on the sky. I used to call interesting skies "painter skies" when they looked fake or something a artist would paint. Anyway we were driving home from Sarasota Pavilion going through the back way, and I saw the water tower with the clouds behind it. (it kind of looks like a scepter) It looked so cool I had to go home and get my camera. When I got back I parked my car so I wouldn't have to drive and shoot (a photo). I did have to stand in the middle of the road to get the shot that I saw when I was driving by. As I was walking back to my car this guy pulls in the parking spot next to me... Now you have to understand that I parked way at the end of the lot and this was not the main thoroughfare it was the back way. He leans out and asks me what I was taking a picture of...do you see a bird? Yes, I said...that's it a bird! He said where? is it still there? I don't see it? Of all times for someone to actually stop and ask... I had to laugh...Yes, it must of flown away! :D When I saw the photo it just didn't capture the unusual look that I saw when I saw it in person with my own eyes! But here it is anyway! This and many more at Sky Watch Friday is for all of you with your eyes in the skies. Enjoy! 
It started out a beautiful day in the intercoastal waterway, perfect for a boat ride....then the clouds came in...
Not big threatening clouds, but when I was sitting in the bow of the boat I looked up and saw a solid fluffy blanket...
This is the way it ended up on the way back, but it was still a fun boat ride.
Added to Sky Watch Friday.
Venice beach in Florida!
We never know when we head out to the beach for sunset what kind of sunset we'll see. It can be stunning with fantastic cloud formation, or just plan clear sky. This one looked OK, sometimes when we get there it's cloudy on the horizon.
But then there are times when one little cloud on the horizon is just in the wrong spot...right where the sun was setting.
Yup...one little cloud on the horizon...
I wasn't sure if this would show up...it looked so cool in person the way it divided the sky like that!
This was taken on the grounds of John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. It was such a tall palm just standing there on such a nice clear day. I almost couldn't get the picture because the sun wanted to get in the shot!
One of the sunset on Siesta Beach. We usually don't go to this beach for sunset because it is curved into the Gulf just enough so the sun doesn't set over the water from here.
So we look the other way and check out how it reflects against the clouds.
They were all taken on the same evening, just different times and angles. Enjoy more Sky Watch photos at: Sky Watch Friday
Sunset on the Gulf of Mexico at Sarasota, Florida. There were so many more colors that you could see in person! I wish it showed up on film...er in the photo as vivid! So many birds were out this evening, and it was a lovely beach walk! There was a green flash with this one too!
This was taken in our neighborhood. We see so many interesting clouds in the summer afternoons here. This evening it was all colors from yellow-orange, then purple-pink. We often see rainbows and many times it is raining and the sun is out. Makes for a fun SkyWatch Friday.
Check it out for unbelievable sky from around the planet!
I know I've said this before, but Florida sky's are always so much fun to watch this time of year. This is Sarasota Bay taken from Bird Key Park just over the Ringling Bridge. I'll have a photo of that sometime soon!
We were driving through Atlanta on the way home to Florida. I am always checking the skies and when I spotted this X I grabbed my camera and took the photo through the windshield. It was almost looking into the sun, but I had to get the X, I thought it was interesting. Pardon the dirty after driving forever windscreen that it was taken through. My husband was driving of course! 
Last Wednesday the sky was the strangest color yellow/orangey. I had to go out and take some photos. So strange they even mentioned it on the local news. I think it was like that all the way up to Tampa area too.
It made everything look so weird, our pool looked green in with the blue water and yellow sky!
Doesn't it look like this is an old photo that faded?
Strangely enough we didn't get any rain from it...maybe just a few drops. Usually you think this is right before a big storm is coming.
I took a photo of the same cacti that was in last weeks Skywatch Friday. I guess we have a lot of interesting skies to watch here in Florida! This was entered in the blog roll for Skywatch Friday
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