Diverse cloud patterns in the blue sky over leafless trees form an interesting composition
Cloud Patterns
Cloud Patterns
Tag Archives: blue
Cloud Variations
Varying cloud formations in the blue sky
Cloud Variations
Unusual Cloud Formations
Unusual cloud formations – a sliver of blue sky between dark ones
Unusual Cloud Formations
Difficult to Spot
Although known for white squirrels, it isn’t easy to spot a rendering of one in Brevard if it is in front of white clouds as background, but here is a close-up of one on a traffic signal against a blue sky.
Traffic Signal Mast Arm Pole
White Squirrel Sculpture on Traffic Signal
Adding Color
A protester’s tent adds a blue color to the foreground of a photo of a Government building in the historic center of Mexico City
Different Colors at the Government Building
Blue and Gold Macaw
This is a large parrot, at Sylvan Heights Bird Park, with long tail feathers, mainly blue and yellow. The forehead is green, the upper part of the body brilliant blue, and the sides of the neck and body golden yellow. These macaws also have black around the chin and cheeks, and the naked skin of the cheeks is pinkish-white with lines of very small, isolated black feathers. Macaws are often monogamous, remaining bonded for life. They are usually seen flying in large flocks, and the bonded pairs fly close together, their wings nearly touching.
Peafowl
Male peacocks, also known as peafowl, are easily recognizable by their vibrant blue or green plumage and long, ornate tail feathers, also known as trains. This long tail is a key feature for courtship displays to attract peahens (female peacocks). The term “peacock” refers to the male bird, while the female is a peahen, and the whole group is called peafowl.
Here is one looking away at Sylvan Heights Bird Park.
Peafowl
Parakeets
A parakeet is any one of many small- to medium-sized parrot species, in multiple genera, that generally have long tail feathers. The two basic parakeet color types are green and blue.
Parakeets at Sylvan Heights Bird Park are in a small protected enclosure where visitors can feed them, and the birds sit on the visitors’ hands or heads.
Parakeet
Parakeet Grooming
Budgerigar or Parakeet
Blue Iris
Elegant and vibrant, Blue iris (Iris spuria) is a perennial iris known for its tall stature and stunning blooms, making it a captivating addition to any garden. Each plant can have multiple flower stalks, and each stalk generally bears 3 to 4 buds.
Blue Iris with Bud
Blue Iris
“Albino” Horse
We saw a distinctive horse at the barn at Churchill Downs. “Albino” horses are a color type of horse born white and have pink skin, but they are not true biological albinos. They have slim heads, muscular necks, compact bodies, sloping shoulders, muscular croup, and long tails. Their eyes are blue, dark, or light brown rather than pink. Their hooves are often weak, but they have flat, smooth gait.
Albino Horse
Blue Eye of a Horse
Lonely Tree
A lonely tree against a blue sky with clouds and goldenrods in the foreground on the trail of Hisle Farm Park, Lexington, Kentucky
A Lonely Tree
Sunflower Against a Blue Sky
A sunflower adds a nice contrast against a blue sky with wisps of clouds
Sunflower Against a Blue Sky
Sunflowers Add Contrast
We continue to post sunflower images from Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Here are images of sunflowers, adding a nice contrast against a blue sky and faint clouds.
Eaten Nectar in a Circular Formation
A Single Sunflower Against a Blue Sky
Rose Plant Against the Sky Clouds
Captured a rose plant against clouds in the blue sky at J C Raulston Arboretum
Rose Plant Against the Sky Clouds
Diverse Landscape Plants
The JC Raulston Arboretum is a nationally acclaimed garden with one of the largest and most diverse collections of landscape plants adapted for landscape use in the Southeast.
Here is an image of flowers midst greenery with a blue sky in the background.
Flowers Against Greenery and Blue Sky
Saguaro Silhouettes
Shot against the sun in the blue sky created silhouette-like portrayal of saguaros.
Typical Nature of North Carolina
We start focusing on the simple beauty of nature. There are countless natural wonders in North Carolina. North Carolina’s state and national parks offer bountiful opportunities to get outside and explore nature’s wonders. Here is a typical scene of blue sky, white cloud formations, and greenery of trees midst the mountains.
Lights on Market Street Bridge Chattanooga
Lights captured at blue hour at The Market Street Bridge, officially referred to as the John Ross Bridge, a bascule bridge that spans the Tennessee River between downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the Northshore District.
Costa Rica Food Exports
The top three food exports of Costa Rica are pineapples, bananas and coffee.
It was interesting to see blue covers on the bananas. The use of a banana fruit blue ripening bag can improve the quality of the fruit as well as increase the yield, and in many case reduce the ripening time. The ripening fruit gives off a gas that in turn speeds up the ripening of remaining fruit. Covers also help to protect the fruit against insects and other animals.
Teton Silhouettes
We end the series of images from Grand Teton National Park with silhouettes of the mountains with a few lingering clouds in a blue sky.
