Your Mother Was A Hamster, And Your Father Smelt Of Elderberries!

I like the sky.

And I know a lot of other bloggers on here do too, with their "Skywatch" meme. Joy @ GardenJoy & Winthrop has some especially nice posts. Also Shyrlene @ The Bunnies' Buffet

I'm not disciplined enough to keep a schedule. In case you haven't guessed, I'm a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants sort of girl.

The other day, however, I saw the perfect sky picture. Was just about home, and I had to screech into the driveway, race in the house, grab the camera, and run out to the backyard to snap a photo. This seems to be the manner in which all my sky pictures are taken.



I always call this sort of sky a 'God Painting'.


I stood there in quiet, reflective awe of this scene. Meditating on the powerful beauty of the world.


Then I suddenly imagine the sound of approaching coconuts in the distance, and it all morphs and swirls together into a Monty Python animation...





...and a giant foot comes down and squashes me and my camera with a "THPPPPT!"

Heaven's On Fire

All right. So I was getting ready to post some pictures of an amazing sunset that I captured this past summer, and stumbled upon again yesterday.

But now I feel the need to discuss one of my weird blog habits. I touched on it the other day, but will digress and explain myself a little more fully.

Never fear, the sunset is still coming!

The first thing that always leaps into my head for a post title is a reference to a song title, band title or lyrics. It may be obvious, or it may be too obscure for anyone to even notice.

But I know it's there. And I find it interesting that I tend to go for that. It's all Mr. A's fault, he's a bad influence. A random fact about him is that he loves to quote lyrics. All the time. If you have something to say, he rummages through the archives in his 48 year old brain, and comes out of it with a lyric to sing to you in reply. It used to be kind of irritating, but now I treat it like a game. I try and guess what lyric he's going come up with from what I said. Usually I'm right LOL.

Today's post title for example? A KISS tune.

I *cough* used to be *cough* a KISS fan. My halloween costume from 2003:



I did a great makeup job, if I may toot my own horn. *toot*

Mr. A hates KISS. He was a teenager in the 70's, and couldn't stand them even though a lot of kids loved them. I, of course, wasn't born until 1981. So I can appreciate the novelty.

I have this picture hanging on our kitchen wall, so he can see it while he's eating. :D

Wow, that was a tangent, wasn't it? I should have a regular weekly feature called "Tangent Tuesday".

On to the sunset photos! All of these are from stages of the same sunset, completely untouched photos.





Like a complete genius, I snapped these from inside my screened back porch. The sky still looks cool behind the highlighted screen though, so I included 'em anyway :P




These two pics are where I got the title inspiration from. Almost looks like a raging forest fire's going on behind the tree-line.





*sings* "Paint the sky...with desire! Angel fly...heaven's on fire!..."

Hehe.