Summer is over.

What a great atmosphere...

Thank you, Udo! It made my walk into the village a very wet one and my umbrella got turned inside out so I had to throw it away and I got even more wet!

Nice bit of drama in the sky and a superb capture, Andy,
Once it started to rain here, it hasn't stopped.

Many thanks, Roger. We certainly need more than a few thunderstorm's worth!

Wie goldig diese Felder durch diese dramatische Stimmung leuchten,eine tolle Aufnahme lieber Andy :))

Wünsche noch einen schönen Abend,ganz liebe Grüße Güni :))

As you need the rain, I am pleased for you Andy, and it also makes a great picture.
A lovely light on the fields!

And even sunlight on the fields at the far right of the shot!

Una vista magnífica y bella con ese cielo amenazante. Todos suspiramos por la lluvia pero no llega. Aquí también tenemos cielos amenazantes pero no cae ni gota de momento.

Und jetzt ziehen Gewitter über das Land ...

Beautiful picture, the sky looks wonderful.

Superbe !!!

Congratulation for the picture, - and the rain!

Dramatic sky... :-)

Sehr schöner Punkt, um das Wetter zu beobachten. Stell ich mir bei einem Gewitter hier auch sehr gut vor

Yes the ground certainly needs rain, but those clouds look very ominous and rain really looks as if it's on its way. The picture is amazing, because you do have an incredible view from your home, which incorporates so much of the valley and the mountains in the background.

J'espère que ces nuages vous déposeront de la pluie de manière raisonnable pour que la terre puisse bien en profiter et qu'elle (la pluie) ne se transforme pas en cataclysme !

Güni,
Marije (I think you'll get your share of rain soon!),
Rosa,
Reinhold,
Betty,
John,
Boro,
Grobi,
Jyryk,
Uwe,
Jenny,
Pearl,
Wonderful comments! Thank you all!
The forecast is for more of the same over the next few days, which is good!
No flash floods for us as we live on the top of a hill but for those that live in dried-out river beds - and there are some - who knows? I wish them well!

ABSOLUMENT magnifique et admirablement rendue avec cette magnifique nébulosité.
Bonne et agréable soirée.

We get lucky with our views sometime, Malik.
Certainly if there are some interesting skies, we tend to get them full-scale!
Many thanks!

Yes, looks like summer is over! An amazing and dramatic sky for sure, Andy.

A dramatic sky Andy, we have had some rain time to think about an Indian Summer. I have just checked Denis Howell died in 1998 he was only 75

Well, he had his one moment of fame in late August, 1976.
Which is one moment more than most politicians!

Between storms - I love the light and that is a terrific sky Andy. I love this image, - moody and dramatic, - just wonderful.

Kind of you, Carol, Thank you!
I must admit that I do like a dramatic sky or three!
Living in Madrid centre up till 18 months ago - and in a lower floor flat in amongst tall appartment blocks - I only saw the sky if I left the building and went to the local park!
So this is a wonderful improvement on that, as you can well imagine, I'm sure!

Definitely Andy. Here too.

I know - from other Portugese members!
Best wishes,
Andy

Dramatic capture! Stay well!

Admired in: www.ipernity.com/group/tolerance

Many thanks, William!

STORM COMING

MANY MORE AFTER THAT AS WELL, PAM!!
MANY THANKS!.

Wonderful drama in the clouds. We are just going into Spring, flowers, brighter skies, although plenty of rain is forecast with La Niña.

It would be lovely to be just going into Spring here too, Gillian!
So it's not an El Niño effect year but a La Niña one instead. I confess to have only heard of the former. Can you explain the difference please!

The other face of the clouds! Quite a different picture from the one before. I loved that song too, Andy. It was the first time I have heard it. Must play it again.

Thank you, Eunice. I hadn't heard that song since the early 70s in France where he was 100 X more popular than in Britain, for some reason.

Superbe ciel bien capté !
Bonne journée. Amitiés

Many thanks, Madeleine!

Beautiful with those threatening clouds over the countryside.

Thank you, Jaap!

A super photo Andy very dramatic.
Best TOZ

Indeed. Wonderful

Gordon,
Annemarie,
Many thanks to you both!

Great shot, Andy, and the mood is fascinating!

Was für ein Wolkenbruch, Andy!
Ja, auch in Norddeutschland brauchen wir dringend Regen. Die Böden sind weitgehend ausgetrocknet. Die Wetterphänomene werden immer extremer. Erst wochenlang Trockenheit und dann massive Niederschläge. Der Klimawandel ist da.

A great view across the dry fields. I hope the storms also brought some good rain, Andy.

Auf eine solche Regenfront haben wir hier an Ruhr und Rhein auch lange gewartet. Heute regnet es den ganzen Tag – endlich!
Schönes Foto!

ANDY, what an AWESOME photo.... I can hardly stop taking in all that is involved in the capture.! and yes Summer is over here as well. such cooler weather and leaves falling everywhere...!!
well done, Andy. BEst wishes, Sarah

* ઇઉ * ,
Wilhelm,
George,
Volker,
Sarah,
Great comments! Thank you all!

Great mood, Andy !

Thank you, Ulrich!

Incoming!!! What a wonderfully dramatic photo Andy. The sky in particular is awesome and I love the light on the landscape. Beautifully captured.

It's good to see you're getting some rain at last............but I hope it doesn't result in bad flooding.

You might need to get some welly boots to continue your walks............and a stronger brolly maybe!

Thank you, Keith!
Wellies are a cert. But I don't recall seeing them in the shops except at ludicrous prices! I'll have to do some research!
A new brolly - it's a pity because the last one was the strongest I ever had - it was a promotional gift from an engineering firm I taught at about 7-8 years ago and I hadn't lost it in all that time - amazing really because my average before that was about 3 a year!

Thank you, Keith!
I'd long forgotten that one! He sang it when I saw him live many moons ago. One of the funniest shows I've ever been to! Brought the memories flooding back!!

Saw him live a couple of times - always wearing my TenaLady!!!

I almost just spat a mouthful of coffee over my keyboard :-)))

I also saw him live...............more years ago than I care to remember...........absolutely brilliant.

I remember that one well! I didn't really understand until I had cause to wear similar during my long hospital stay last year!

Un joli ciel, beau et menaçant.

Impressive storm and equally impressive photo, Andy. Take care.

Pierre,
Rashid,
Many thanks to you both!

what a sky !

We do get them sometimes, Nora! I do try to be there when they happen!

Looks like quite a storm.

We missed it by a matter of yards, I guess, Ronald - but we got some of the ones that followed!

Fantastic image Andy, you've caught the light superbly, so atmospheric.
Could've done with a flash of lightning - or am I being too demanding?
Excellent job, don't forget your umbrella!!

Many thanks!
I've tried in the past to capture lightning and my success rate is 0%, Maggie!
So I didn't even bother this time round. As it happened I heard plenty of thunder but didn't see any lightning. Strange ... but it can, I think, be explained by the fact that the storm focuses were on the other side of the mountain range and the sound travelled over them to where we are but the cloud was so thick that we didn't see any lightnng! I can't think of any other reason!

Oh Andy, beautiful photo of a great weather scene. If one turned this upside down the sky would seem like and ocean - and so the music link is appropriate *smile*.

Have we talked about the fact that my husband wrote at least half of Tim Buckley's lyrics? And Song to the Siren is one of those! [Please forgive me if I've already told you this. It's my one claim to fame to be married to a man with such a magnificent way with words, a true poet.]
I'm really glad you like the version you linked to (from the Monkey's tv show). You might be interested in hearing the version where my husband talks of how this song came to be interspersed with the music, music performed by Stuart Anthony - not Tim's glorious voice, but a beautiful rendition none the less (and I think my husband's reciting voice is amazing). www.youtube.com/watch?v=coi_cP6okyE&ab_channel=VedantaVideo

We've had our first real clouds also today - but I have too many trees in the way to get a view like yours *smile*.

I knew your husband was talented but I didn't know that!!!! I'm now going to listen to the link! I should have done that before starting typing!

Now listened to it and with great pleasure!
I will have to go back and listen to more Tim Buckley as I only had 'Greetings from L A.' which I bought back in the day and which has remained one of my all time favourite albums. I used to bring that one into the 6th form common-room at school (6th form = 17 and 18 year olds before leaving school - not graduating - we reserve that for university!) and it was immediately popular. I didn't manage to make tim Buckley more popular in Britain unfortunately! I think Tim only really came into people's consciousness when his son Jeff became extremely successful in Britain and then people began hearing about his Dad. And it is a bit uncanny how similar their singing styles can be sometimes!
Anyway, I promise to listen out especially for Tim's songs where Hubby is the lyricist!
And thank you also for happy memories and a very enjoyable 15 minutes or so!

I'm so glad this pleased you! And glad it brought up happy memories. You might like the 'Goodbye and Hello' Tim Buckley album - there are a lot of Larry's lyrics on that one and it is well thought of.

Hey, thanks for trying to make Tim more popular in Britain *smile*!
It was really when This Mortal Coil recorded 'Song to the Siren' that England started taking notice of Tim - and then, yes, when Jeff became successful in England, that boosted Tim also.

I never got to meet Tim, but I did meet Jeff and hear him perform.

Larry has written more wonderful lyrics recently, and the band Eyelids put out an album called "The Accidental Falls" with all Larry's lyrics. Of course they don't include the great singing voice of Tim, but I still love the album. I got to be at the recording session, with Peter Buck (from REM) there producing the album, and John Moen (of the Decemberists) as one of the singers. The title track is Larry's translation of a Goethe poem into modern verbiage. I love the whole album, but if you wanted to listen to a track I think you can hear the sweet starting song on youtube. The song is called 'Dream': www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E7ADZWxD-s&ab_channel=Eyelids-Topic

Not sure if you can see this other one, but it is en Eyelids performance (with Larry and Peter Buck also playing) of a Tim Buckley/Larry Beckett song that never got released when Tim was alive. It's called 'Found at the Scene of a Rendezvous That Failed': www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5eVOTjWek&ab_channel=JealousButcherRecords
(I'm just not sure about different countries being able to see certain youtube videos and I'm not that fond of the video itself, but the audio is cool. If you can't see the video I think you should be able to listen once or twice for free on bandcamp: musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com/track/found-at-the-scene-of-a-rendezvous-that-failed-w-peter-buck-lb-kk

Okay, okay. I'll stop.

Only just seen, Laura - I've been travelling, paying hospital visits, staying with family who all seem to have come down with things at the same time which is unfortunate to say the least! I have suddenly gone from being the sickest to being the healthiest one in a matter of weeks! My consultant finally gave me the all-clear to fly (too risky for me previously, but I've recently had a new vaccine for the immuno-comprimised that should give greater protection) so I've had no time to myself lately!
I will have a session with all the links you kindly provided, as soon as I can, and I'm greatly looking forward to it!
All best wishes and many many thanks!

So glad you replied again - because that got me to enjoy your photo all over again!

And I'm really glad to hear that you hae made it to the top of the family health list! I'm curious about the new vaccine you got. How exciting that you can fly again.

Thank you. Laura!
I forget its name but it's new and specifically designed for co-morbidity amd low immunity cases like me. I was amazed to find that it hasn't been accepted by the NHS. I need to know why, altough that's a touch academic know as I've already had it!
I've been very busy and haven't got round to listening to those musical links you kindly provided yet. I thought I would do so this afternoon but we had a brief burst of sunshine and I had to do some of the heavier garden jobs that are a bit too much for my mum now. She's 86 and still does a fantastic job in the garden, in the kitchen and she still plays competetive bowls (outdoor on a lawn, not the indoor type!)

An apocalyptic atmosphere that demonstrates the great rainfall deficits and their too sudden recovery. I hope the ensuing floods are not too serious there.
As for Tim Buckley, I didn't know him but the variety of comments above shows his still great popularity!

You surprise me a little, Eric! I recall Tim Buckley as being 100 times more popular in France than in England (I am talking about the early 70s)!

Lucky you!

Yes, rain was very welcome and when it's come, it's been fairly steady rain - the perfect kind!
Thank you Nicolas!

Hi Andy
A very nice cloud picture, which I like very much!
It looks like torrents of rain are coming. But as always, it is the 'wrong kind of rain!"
Best Wishes, a nice week ahead, and stay safe!!
Peter

Not too bad this time, Peter - Please see my reply to Nicolas, above!
Thank you and best wishes,
Andy

Terrific sky, well taken!!

Many thanks, Stefani!

Some dramatic looking clouds there, hope you got enough bit not too much at once rain

Please see my reply to Nicolas above. Many thanks, Colin!

superbe ciel !!!!!

Thank you once more, Jeanne!

Terrific sky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great photo*****

Many thanks, Nouchet!

Another fantastic sky, Andy!!

Pleased you like it, Angelika. Thank you!

Comme un superbe tableau

indeed a very dramatic sky!

Roland,
Gabi,
Thank you both!

Magmificent