Banded Rows of Clouds at Sunset ~ Pasadena, Calif.

4 Palms in Pasadena from August, 2010

On the weekday bike commute halfway between the house and the job,  a spray of feathery clouds against a typical California landscape can get my attention.  Jim Staub ~ Dec. 2011

Evening Sky with Parrots and Pecan Tree ~ Pasadena, Calif.

A troupe of wild parrots make the - over the back fence neighbor's tree -  a favorite location to settle for a spell. It's never a long visit.  They seem argumentative and capricious.  Mexican Red Heads, I hear.  A solo squak quickly becomes a chorus of madcap shrieks, and the Pecan tree is left bare once again as they peal off in a semi-uniform school. The parrot's activities are nothing elegant, yet if you're in the market for raucous slapstick they're a welcomed interruption to that work-a-day sky.   Jim Staub

                                                                                    

Clouds/Hills Near Corona, Calif. ~ June 2011

   I'm seeing the author, John Steinbeck's descriptions of rural California in these landscapes.  An old ranch house, and a few scattered grazing horses might further complete his setting for a novel.  These photographs were taken in a freeway fast series, from a moving car south of Corona, Calif.  Without those wind shaped clouds the camera might have remained stashed.  Jim Staub Dec. 19, 2011

Three Cloud Filled Skies from Pasadena ~ Fall 2011

Double Rainbow Just up the Block - Pasadena, Calif.

Montana Sky / Idaho Sky - Sept. 2010

 I took this from an Idaho Falls supermarket parking lot at dusk.  No one in the area seemed particularly astonished by this sky. People going about their business.  I decided not to avoid the parking lot light , but there wasn't much time to look for an undeterred view anyway so I made a few exposures as my wife waited in the car with the bananas I had just purchased. Jim Staub  Dec. 13, 2011

In Montana heading down the State on Interstate 15.