La Guillotine électriques...?

Above: La Guillotine
This pylon does look a little like the (in)famous La Guillotine of the French Revolution only with a modern twist - powered by electricity!

Did you know
The guillotine was still in use in the 1930's! The last public guillotining was of Eugen Weidmann, who was convicted of six murders. He was beheaded on 17 June 1939, outside the prison Saint-Pierre rue Georges Clemenceau 5 at Versailles.

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Today's quote: There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine ~ P. G. Wodehouse.

Skywatch Friday

Above: Sun on Water
Taken just after 5.00pm as the sun was slowly sinking.

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Today's quote: A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Mekong Sunset

Above: Sunset over the Mekong
This was taken after we'd docked at the slowboat landing and were trudging up the walkway to Luang Prabang.

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Today's quote: Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven ~ John Lubbock

Skywatch Friday

 

Above: Darkening shadows

Taken about 4.00PM facing west - suddenly the sky darkened as clouds appeared seemingly out of nowhere - it had been a brilliant blue most of the day.

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Today's quote: God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars ~ Martin Luther.

Skywatch Friday - Under Sorrento Skies

Street with a view
This is the scene you see when standing on the roundabout at the intersection of Point Nepean Road and Ocean Beach Road facing the sea. If you were to walk down the hill and turn left at the Esplanade you would be at the Sorrento Queenscliff ferry wharf.

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Today's Quote: Clouds symbolise the veils that shroud God ~ Honore De Balzac

Moon

Moon at Night
Taken on the back balcony late at night.

I will be away for a couple of days and will visit other lovely skies on my return. May you all have a happy weekend.☺

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Today's Quote: The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand ~ Frederic Lawrence Knowles

Skywatch Friday - Early Morning Walk

City Skyscape
I was doing an early morning waterfront walk in the city of Melbourne last Friday. this was taken on the pedestrian bridge which runs alongside Sandridge Bridge. Shot taken facing east.

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Today's Quote: In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true ~ Buddha

Skywatch Friday - Backyard Sunrise

 

This was taken in my backyard.

Today's quote: There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope ~ Bern Williams


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Skywatch Friday - Ships That Pass In The Night

Time to say goodbye
Down on the Mornington Peninsula, the ferry runs between Sorrento and Queenscliff across Port Phillip Bay connecting it (Sorrento) with the Bellarine (Peninsula). The trip takes around 40 minutes and is much faster than driving back to Melbourne, then heading west down the Princes Highway.

This photo was taken not long before sunset from the Portsea pier. In the first photo, the boat on the left is heading back to Sorrento and the one on the right is on its way to Queenscliff. As you can see in the second photo, they have passed each other. After taking these shots, I went back to my car and drove back to Sorrento to wait for the ferry to pull in where I took some more photos.

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Today's quote: Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say ~ Oscar Wilde.

Skywatch Friday - At The Dawning Of The Day

At the Dawning of the Day

"Every Sunrise"
Every sunrise is a present, A gift from God above,
Gift-wrapped with scarlet ribbons, Tied with bows of love.

Each day's a new beginning, A time to start anew,
While all the stars are sleeping, The rose is fresh with dew.

Each day's a new creation, Too lovely to ignore,
We may find a blessing, Just outside our door.

We cannot keep the past, Like fireflies in a jar;
Nor journey to the future, By wishing on a star.

Every sunrise is a blessing, A gift for just today,
Rejoice my friend, Embrace it before it fades away!

Author Unknown


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Today's Quote: Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it - Henry David Thoreau.

Skywatch Friday - Sunrise

I shall lift mine eyes to the heavens
The dark shadows of night slowly creep
Their lengthening lines do fade
The clouds ring out with colour
As the dawn brings on its hue

Through pinks and blues
And rays that shimmer
In the early morn
The crispness of the air
The song of birds to welcome the new dawn.

Today's Quote: Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun -
Thomas Jefferson.


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Skywatch Friday - Sunrise Dawning

Sunrise Dawning

At the dawning of a new day
Bright orange fires the sky
Yesterday is past
And today is the new tomorrow

The tomorrows of today
Are with us as we watch
The tender rays
Unfold
And spread their light and shining glow
Upon the earth

See God's beauty
And His handiwork
Shining through
The birth of a new day.

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(Many thanks to all of you for your good wishes - am slowly getting there,☺)

Skywatch Friday - Lady Moon

0 Lady Moon, your horns point toward the east;
Shine, be increased:
0 Lady Moon, your horns point toward the west;
Wane, be at rest.

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)


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Sunset In My Neighbourd

Over the quarry

Some time ago I noticed a huge ball of flaming red and I realised if I went to the end of the street, turned right then left and left again at the end of the street I could see the sunset. There's a disused quarry in the foreground.

Red velvet sunset
Serenades earth and sky
An opera in red

Ribbons of color
Harmonize across sky
Red velvet sunset

Dorothy (Alves) Holmes

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Skywatch Friday - Double Indemnity?

The sky in the pool

I rather liked this because the clouds are mirrored in the pool at Yering Station Winery.

We are at present experiencing a "cool change" and are in the middle of a dust storm - hopefully the internet won't drop out again.
Happy skywatching everyone.

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Skywatch Friday - Clouds at Sunset

The red cloud
When taking photos of a sunset recently, I noticed this red cloud - something I hadn't seen before.

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Skywatch Friday - On Cloud 9

34,000 feet
Another plane, another day, another cloud. Taken from my window seat flying over Melbourne.

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Skywatch Friday - Blue Skies

Just on sunrise - from my backyard facing east.

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Ghostly Gums - Skywatch Friday

Early one morning, just as the sun was rising
Outside my front door, facing north(ish) the wind was something fierce, it rocked me back and forth.

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Skywatch Friday - Clouds at 35,000 ft

Somewhere over Melbourne
Taken from my window seat on the plane.