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elleng

(130,964 posts) Wed Dec 15, 2021, 07:06 PM Dec 2021

Some kind of clouds?! after sunset. Mackerel sky

Last edited Wed Dec 15, 2021, 07:44 PM - Edit history (1)

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Some kind of clouds?! after sunset. Mackerel sky (Original Post) elleng Dec 2021 OP

Beautiful and mysterious 🙂 MLAA Dec 2021 #1

Is that four horsemen off on the horizon there? ret5hd Dec 2021 #2

That's also called a "buttermilk sky" because those small scattered clouds Atticus Dec 2021 #3

Hoagy Carmichael alfredo Dec 2021 #7

Gorgeous! DarthDem Dec 2021 #4

Whatever kind of sky, it is lovely. Thank you. niyad Dec 2021 #5

Beautiful Duncanpup Dec 2021 #6

MLAA

(17,298 posts)

1. Beautiful and mysterious 🙂

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 07:34 PM

Dec 2021

ret5hd

(20,493 posts)

2. Is that four horsemen off on the horizon there?

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 07:44 PM

Dec 2021

Never mind...just something stuck on my screen.

Atticus

(15,124 posts)

3. That's also called a "buttermilk sky" because those small scattered clouds

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 08:03 PM

Dec 2021

resemble the "curds" in the milk.

Hoagy Carmichael wrote a song about it.

alfredo

(60,074 posts)

7. Hoagy Carmichael

Reply to Atticus (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 11:48 PM

Dec 2021

DarthDem

(5,255 posts)

4. Gorgeous!

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 08:03 PM

Dec 2021

Great shot, elleng! I never heard the term mackerel used to refer to a sky before. It looks great. I love the pretty tree as well.

niyad

(113,336 posts)

5. Whatever kind of sky, it is lovely. Thank you.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 09:15 PM

Dec 2021

Duncanpup

(12,859 posts)

6. Beautiful

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Wed Dec 15, 2021, 09:33 PM

Dec 2021

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