City-lights-soaked clouds

Come in to the city across Lake Pontchartrain on a muggy cloudy night and you will catch a scene such as this. The clouds soak with city light leaking skyward and the buildings at the edge of the Causeway with their hundreds of eyes still gleaming.

--steve buser

Clouds, New Orleans, Night

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Smoke gets in your sky.

Sometimes its the rusty reds and burnt oranges that make a sunset jump out at you. Other times is more subtle smoky tones such as this sunset shot on Citrus Lane in the River Ridge area of Jefferson Parish (New Orleans' neighbor).

This is a Skywatch Friday post, Go and check out more Skywatch images at the Skywatch Site!

--steve buser

sunset, Skywatch Friday, River Ridge, Louisiana, New ORleans

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Top of the day, top of the sky

What is the odds that the skies will be this clear for the St. Patricks's Day parade down St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans this weekend. This shot was from a beautiful, festive day a couple years ago. Blue skies, gentle winds, short sleeve weather, and all the cabbage and potatoes you could think of eating. How much better can it get.

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--steve buser

SkyWatch Friday, St. Patricks Day, parade, St Charles Avernue, New Orleans, Louisiana

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The sky's a busy street.

You know those days when the clouds seem to be fighting each other. Some riding giant thermals. Other being pushed around by fronts and winds that seem all a kilter. Some how, though, like a busy street -- maybe like in Times Square --every body seems to get where they want to go. This was how it was on Veterans Boulevard a while back when I took this picture.

Hope you enjoy this SkyWatch Friday photo. Go to the SkyWatch Friday site to enjoy 100's more.

--steve buser

Nightrise

When the night starts rising and infiltrating the sun's skyful painting, you start pushing the drive a little harder. As this 18-wheeler goes sliding and humming down the interstate you can't tell from the side of the road if he is near the end of his journey.

I pulled off to capture the sunset. It made getting home a little later. To my way of thinking, if God spends the time to paint something like this and we don't slow down enough to appreciate it, it is a loss we can't make up.


Hope you enjoy this SkyWatch Friday photo. Go to the SkyWatch Friday site to enjoy 100's more.

--steve buser

Balloon bypasser

It's Skywatch Friday. This was a few days back. A balloon came sailing by. Whimsical it was. Must be an omen of a smiley, happy day.

Check the Skywatch Friday site for a host of other photos that examine the theme "sky."

--steve buser

Galloping grace

Grace under pressure. Heard that one?

I came up over this mound at the spillway out to the west of New Orleans a few weeks back and this egret and I came almost eye to eye. When you're carrying a wingspan of a dozen feet, it is always better to get a forewarning that something is coming. Surprises are not good. That's because these big birds take a bit of energy to get up into the air. Though I knew he was moving as quickly as he could -- it's neck stuck straight out and he flapped mighty gust of winds down at the surface of the water -- he was slow to get any real speed. It all looked so graceful. So slow motion. So much grace under pressure.

Then he was airborne and swooped around in a large arc, settling around 300 feet away in the high grasses. Gracefully.

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--steve buser

Sundown symphony

Would you get mad at me, if we took a quick break almost as soon as we got started? I know I promised you some exciting shopping down Magazine Street, but I just have to show you this picture I took yesterday coming home in the Jeanerette area on Highway 190.

There was cool front pushing through and as I came north on Highway 90 toward Lafayette, dark clouds of the cool front were starting to clear. The sun took its cue and composee a full length sunset symphony that lasted from about 6 to 7. The sugar cane fields were broad and flat -- affording a panoramic view.

We will get back to shopping in tomorrow's post. I never did a Sky Watch Friday, post, and decided it was time I did. Click the link to see more exciting sky photos.


--steve buser