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Wow Spanky,
I have to say there seems to be PLENTY of drama in your skys! These are beautiful. And all in such different ways.
You and Mark are so lucky to have water involved with your views.
Thanks for posting these.
(And one new one below from just this minute… I call it "Moon over SDR")

Exquisite. It's hard to get views taken after dark . . .
People living on the east side of my building get to see moonrises -- and the downtown vista. But I'm happy with my sunsets, and the old yellow-brick Italianate church up the hill.
Nice shots, Spanky. Water is such a great reflector of the sky -- and different sorts of cloud formations are found over bodies of water, aren't they.

We can't let this go on indefinitely -- but I've been offline for two days so I'll indulge myself. These were taken four minutes apart, the other night . . .
Now -- what else is going on, people ?

Stunning! What camera do you use, SDR? Sunset photos so often look washed out, even when the real sky was brilliantly colored. I used my iPhone 6 and I have to say, I LOVE that I can just tap the screen and change the exposure and see it instantly. Many years ago I had good SLR film camera but never got the hang of all the settings and that ignorance carried over to when i switched to digital. The phone is so much easier with the instant feedback.
Here are a couple I took at sunrise from out my front door at my old house (the one with the deck that I miss so much). This was after a rare blizzard. Damn, I used to keep early hours...

Absolutely gorgeous!
Best,
Old Mark

This morning just after sun-blast over the gulf stream.
Blue skies and Green lights to all,
Your Aunt M.
ps I wore pink.

Everybody's pictures are stunning! I'm so enjoying them--keep them coming. (That's part and parcel of being an oldtimer, I think, that I prefer pictures of skies to selfies. Except for Mark. I adore his selfies.)
Here is one I took of a reflection on a Norwegian lake this summer on our roadtrip through the fjords.

Wonderful. Who knew we'd have a scenic thing going. Love Spanky's sunrise, as I'm big on red and blue combinations. That vertical shot could have professional exposure. (Speaking of exposures, etc, I modify my shots, and those of others which come my way, in iPhoto. My camera is an ancient 2MP Canon Powershot. Not the sharpest images, I guess, but the thing is like a rock. I just passed 7800 images. Screen is postage-stamp sized. Maybe I should upgrade. No cell phone -- yet.)

you are too kind, Riki...and what a lovely photograph. Some of the above sunsets look a bit haunted. I like that.
Best,
Your Aunt Mark

I've got a couple more of the same view out my old front door but later in the morning on the first one, plus a day later because the road is plowed. It looks so Scandinavian, but it wasn't at all. We lived just north of the Mason-Dixon Line, actually.
The second was just before sunrise on a different day---almost no color at all! Weather is so weird.

Sunrise this morning with a cloud layer hovering on top of Lac Léman. So peaceful until the construction noises in the 'hood started up and killed the moment.
SDR, if you have held out so far against the forces of evil, stay true, brother! Cell phones have a way of sucking you in and not letting go.

Rain. Sunset. Highballs. Monday. Evil.
Best,
Aunt M

Shenandoah National Park, Stony Man summit.

Those two gorgeous scenes are comical in their justaposition---heaven and hell!
While looking for pics of chair bases, I came across these photos I took in Lurie Garden in Chicago four years ago. If you're never been there, it's a tiny 1-square-block oasis of native prairie plants right in downtown. I went there with my sister and one of my brothers after a long day of dealing with elderly parent health issues and driving in hideous traffic, and OH MY. What a respite. It was magical.
PLUS, the paved walks are the most beautiful and functional I've ever seen. If I had a place that needed garden walkways, I'd have to seriously consider these. The whole garden was done on a budget and the designers came up with the ingenious idea of getting granite scraps from countertop fabricators and slicing them into strips. They're always the same thickness so all they had to do with cut the right width, then the strips were set in a gravel & sand bed and filled with sand or stone dust. They're non-slip, too.
If you ever get to Chicago, check this place out.

Yeah, well Mark's Hell looks pretty cool if you ask me.
Woody's Heaven is amazing.
Hell of a choice.
Spanky, I like how you phrased: "if I had a place that NEEDED garden walkways"…
I like the idea of letting the site tell the designer what to do, rather than the other way around.
Going with what a unique situation asks for, is so important to good design.
(Living on a steep hill, I have had to embrace this all-important design philosophy)
This is not a ***** ******* *****.