Sky Watching

I never really paid attention to the sky until I acquired my first digital camera.  I received it as a birthday gift and suddenly everything was so much more vivid, more intriguing, more gasp-worthy.  Colors, textures, patterns...I started to notice these amazing things in nature more often, because I saw them as potential photographs.  Clouds in particular.  I love noticing something I've never witnessed before, like the first time I really saw a mackerel sky.  I'd probably noticed them dozens of times, but I'd never really seen them.  Anyway, today was one of those times. 

It looked as if the sky had been torn open, then stitched back together.  Isn't it beautiful?  If I were a better photographer, or had the editing skills to really bring this out, you would be able to see what I saw standing under it this morning.  This is the kind of stuff that makes a tic mark in the "reasons I'm glad to be alive" column of life.