Waiting for Day One: -8 (Part I)

So, my e-mail box and whatsapp kept getting pictures all night. Now I am speachless. If I posted just two pictures a day, like I did in the past days, I could go on for weeks!
Since November 1st is not weeks ahead, and since you'll probably send even more pictures, prepare yourselves to admire plenty of wonderful skies!

Today I want to share a picture that my facebook friend Sandra took last summer. Can I be partial? I LOVE this picture! She was in Röskö, Finland.

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky.

[Haruki Murakami]

Sandra - Röskö - July 2015

Last winter I took a picture of a cloudy sky in Berlin. A storm was coming and it was very windy.

Chiara - Berlin - Winter 2015 - Early afternoon

And talking about cloudy skies: see this one, taken by Marisa in the countryside around Mantua , in Italy! 

Marisa - Near Mantua

My friend Monica is currently in the USA and it looks like they have clouds, too.

Monica - Massachussets - October, 23rd 2015

Monica - Vermont - October, 22nd 2015 - Sunset

And did you know there are clouds also in Southern Italy? Laura was there boarding a plane yesterday and sent in this picture!

Laura - Brindisi - October 23rd 2015 - Sunset

On the contrary, it appears yesterday was a very cloudless day in Asiago. See the picture that Enrica sent in!

I never get tired of the blue sky! 

[Vincent Van Gogh]

Enrica - Asiago - October 23rd 2015 - 11.30 am

I'll be back later today with more pictures! You just keep sending them! Happy Sky to everbody :)

Waiting for Day One: -9

The enthusiasm and the joy that this project has awakened are amazing! I have already received so many pictures for this "waiting for day one" phase, I'm speachless (almost: it's not that easy to have me shut up!).

So today I'm sharing a picture that I took a few years ago in Berlin. It was June and the year was 2012. Probably late morning. Can you see the heart-shaped spot of sky among all those fluffy, white clouds?

Chiara - Berlin - June 2012 - Late Morning

Then I want to share a picture that my friend Emanuela took last August, on a day of particular significance for her. It was 6.00 am in Cervia  , Italy.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning 

and out of the heart of darkness 

comes the light. 

[Jean Giaraudoux]

Emanuela - Cervia - August 2015 - 6.00 am

Waiting for Day One: -10

Since November,1^st is not here yet, but we are and the sky is, why don't we start sharing some older pictures? 

This one was taken by my friend Celenia a few days ago. The place is  Empoli , a town 20 km away from the most famous city of Florence, in Italy, and the picture was taken on October,18^th, at precisely 6.11 pm.

Celenia - Empoli - October, 18^th - 6.11 pm

Then there's this one, taken at sunset by my daughter Sara in Berlin, in July.

The sun stooped to the western waves, entering his bath of blood-red fire.  He sank, and all the ways were darkened.  [E.R. Eddison]

Sara - Berlin - July 2015 - Sunset