Pachypodium Lamerei, Berkeley Botanical Gardens, CA.

Japanese Garden, Berkeley Botanical Gardens, CA.

Asperatus clouds; very marbled, textured thunderclouds.

Taken at the Butterfly Inn, Pacific Grove.

Check out:

Like, whoa, dude.

Sun waiting in the wings.

Beautiful cloud sweeping up the sky at sunset.

Multi-color sunset.

Stormy sunrise.  The crows were circling about, playing in the updrafts.

Just took this one tonight.

Took this one tonight as well.

This is a sunrise during a recent storm.

Fish-eye illusion!

A true California sunset.

Beautiful sweeping sunrise.

Trees in a Hawaii park.  What kind are they?

Pitcher plants in a Hawaii botanical garden greenhouse.

A tree in Oahu, HI.

Oahu, HI.

 At a cafe in Carmel Valley.

I believe this is a partial Parhelic arc.

Soft sunrise.

Epic clouds.

This is called a circumzenithal arc.

Layers.

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For my birthday (with seagull on top).

Jigsaw sky.

One of my favorites.

When does one color become another?

Delicate wisps in the early morning.

Sunrays cutting across clouds.

Welcome to the gates of Heaven -- please remove your shoes.

I wish I had a camera with panorama capability.  There's nothing like the feeling of looking up and having beauty as far as the eye can see.