by magic moments
What an incredible sunset sky on Monday evening, April 23rd, taken from our back deck. Do you see the magnolia tree in the top two images? Here it is again below, taken this afternoon just when the sun came out after a few very dreary rainy days.
April 26, 2012 in Canada and BC, Home by Marja-Leena
Such a sky is of star-magnitude intensity! Magnolianesc! (Is that even a word?)
I always called the Maxfield Parrish skies when I saw them. We get them here now and again but not so often as out west. Your magnolia is magnificent.
Rouchswalwe, I don’t know if magnolianesc is a word but I like it!
Susan, sunset photos and paintings are often considered kitschy, as is Parrish’s work, yet I could not resist these photos of the moment. The magnolia is indeed wonderful this time of year though much too short-lived, the rain and wind are already shattering the flowers.
Lovely, I can smell the aroma of spring, mud and new growth from here.
Kitsch? Oh no! No castles or moats in the foreground, just glorious throbbing sky.
zhoen, oh good, I’ve mastered smells on my blog! 🙂
Naomi, thanks, glad you like!
Wonderful magnolia, and very fresh still, not brown spotted. They’re mostly over now here.
I rather like Maxfield Parrish.
In the first photo the tree in the middle could be a square Norman church tower. Magic indeed. The sky looks like an uspide down eiderdown.
Lucy, our spring is two or three weeks late this year. Magnolias are gorgeous but so messy, especially the neigbour’s one that drops everything on our sloped driveway and makes it slippery. Parrish is popular but I do find his work too sweet, to be honest.
Joe, how interesting, that does look like a Norman church in the dark… and eiderdowns too. I like what you see.
I’m with Joe: I instantly thought of a Norman tower (of course I live in one of the few villages in the US that actually has a couple of insane castles (one in the lake’s edge, and a Norman one buried in the woods.)
That’s not a very sentimental sky with those dark, dark shapes foregrounding and the very distinct, almost muscular clouds–and then I like that strange gossamer effect, overlaid in places.
Marly, did that village choose you or did you choose it? It sounds like just the place for you. I’m glad you like the photos and think them unsentimental. That gossamer effect is a strange thing, some kind of reflection onto the camera lens perhaps, but I do like it a lot.