ABC Wednesday: N is for Night

 San Diego, California, above and left

Glass factory, Cabo San Lucas

Sunset over the Pacific, south of San Diego

© Photos by Kay Davies and Richard Schear, 2012

Posted for
ABC Wednesday
Mrs. Nesbitt's popular alphabetical meme, capably handled by her team.
Thanks, Denise. Thanks, team!

A word with Laurie: effervescence

the water’s

effervescence

and the sunshine

on the gull

give a California splendor

to our world

we walk along

the waterfront

and smile

at one other

then the California sun

sets—

as we stroll

Laurie, of the writers' group Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, posted a word challenge for Friday the 13th today, and the word she chose was the 13-letter word effervescence. She suggested, therefore, that we try to make our poems 13 lines long as well.

SkyWatch Friday: sunset, Red Deer

That would be the city of Red Deer, Alberta, blog fans, not a herd of red deer looking at a sunset. Dick and Lindy and I were in Red Deer recently to see two of Dick's daughters and three of the grandsons. Lindy behaved so well at the Red Deer Lodge, and Dick was pretty good, too...he took these photos of the sunset!

I love the layers of colors between the trees (above).

© Photos by Richard Schear

Posted for SkyWatch Friday

SkyWatch Friday: sky over Oregon

It was my birthday last week. The day I officially became a Senior Citizen found me waking up in Albany, Oregon, after arriving on an Amtrak train the previous evening, then traveling from Albany to the wild and wonderful Oregon coast with my good friend Maryann. We took the scenic route: through the rainforest with a stop at quaint little Alsea and then to her beautiful view home in Waldport, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It was a lovely day, and a great visit! Thanks, Maryann!

Above and below, right, morning clouds over Albany, Oregon.

Above, a deserted store in Alsea, with a
still-popular store, below, left, across from it.

While Maryann popped into the Waldport Library,
I took out my camera, above and below.

The view from Maryann's deck, above, and
sunset, below, seen between Waldport and Newport.

Posted for
SkyWatch
Friday,
the meme for folks with
their heads in the clouds.
To see other skies from other parts of the world, please click  HERE!
Photos by Kay Davies

Mediterranean sunsets

My husband just loved to be back onboard the ship before dark during our Spanish Mediterranean, Lisbon & Canary Islands cruise with Royal Caribbean. From our balcony, he would mark the end of each day ashore by taking a picture of the sunset. He's particularly pleased with the last one, which he calls "Hole in the Sky"!

So, I offer our four favorites of these special photos by Richard Schear for this week's Skywatch Friday.

Skywatch Friday, can I get this right?

My husband, Dick, and our beautiful Golden Retriever, Lindy, walk every evening down by the coulees here in southeastern Alberta. Earlier this month, Dick got some fabulous sky pictures as the moon was coming up and the sun was going down, and they were published on this blog before I ever heard of Skywatch Friday, which I only learned about on ABC Wednesday. See http://abcwednesdayround3.blogspot.com/ (This is entirely too much fun, really.)

Here, however, are my favorites from my August 2 post, for Skywatch Friday: the moon rising over the trees as the sun is setting over the prairie.

http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Photos by Richard Schear. Posted by Kay Davies.

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