Brushstrokes in the Sky

The sky was doing the most amazing things today. I would love to have had the warm clothes, a fisheye lens, and a tripod, to have been able to position myself somewhere and snap away every minute to create a time-lapse video. Had none of those things, so this will have to do, one of many taken, to give an impression. Not a lot of wind at ground level, but it must have been whooshing along in the upper atmosphere, creating the most beautiful frills and swirls. 

I should make mention of the wonderful lady who provided my face for today. Meet Valerie. I often see her outside her house in Askwith, but have never stopped to say hello until today. I'm glad I did. I asked her if she had lived there long, to which she told me, over eighty years. She was born in the same house she still lives in. The little village school is only a hundred yards away. Her father went there, as did she, of course, and her children, and now her grandchildren. That's what I like to call having strong roots!