Beth's Ponderings
Have you looked up
at the sky lately? I mean, really truly
looked at the sky?
One of the things I
love most about living in
While I’ve been a sky
admirer for most of my life, I have been appreciating it even more recently
because, for approximately three weeks, I’ve been creating a simple daily “sky”
drawing on my ipad each morning. As I’m
an early riser, and the view I’m using is out my window looking east, the
drawings have been mostly sunrises now, but I’ve also completed ones reflecting
the sky’s appearance later in the morning or afternoon. A few times, I did two as the sky changed so
dramatically from when I started drawing the first one that I had to capture
the change in a second one.
Like a river, the
sky is never static. While at first
glance it may seem to be the same, the sky is constantly changing - as the sun
moves from east to west, and as the clouds drift in and out. The colours are always shifting too, not
just at sunrise and sunset. And, there
is also the beauty of the night sky to explore with its stars and the ever
changing phases of the moon.
The sky gives you a bigger perspective as it is immense enough to contain and handle whatever weather may be occurring. A thunderstorm in one direction doesn’t detract from what is happening in the other three directions. Have you looked at the sky today?
Beth
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