Mammatus clouds - at last!

I was beginning to despair of ever seeing mammatus clouds, but this week there they were right over our street.  We've had an epic overnight thunderstorm in Edinburgh (which I slept through), so the conditions were right. 

Christening shawl

Reminds me of the fragile beauty of my children's christening shawls.

Old College dome

Feathery clouds over the University of Edinburgh's Old College.

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The veil

 Poised over my home village on Speyside, on the Easter weekend.

Normal back garden view - includes a bit of the greenhouse, two local industries (a garage and a distillery) and the remains of an early 13th century castle on the hill. 
 

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Cloud and variations

IKEA sky

Outside IKEA, at Straiton, Edinburgh.

Old College cloud

I have a lot of cloud catch-up to do from 2013.  Here's the first, from the University of Edinburgh's Old College in September.

Just another Speyside sunrise

Brewing

I felt a distinct sense of foreboding when I stood outside under this sky on 2 November.  And rightly so - it delivered a night of gales and rain.

Scribbles in the sky

Mound Place, Edinburgh, looking towards Edinburgh Castle. 

After a brief, delusional spell when I thought I could post a cloud photo a day, I've accepted reality and changed the tempo of this blog to the occasional mode.  I probably take a cloud photo a day, but turning it into a blog post is another matter. 

Cloud skin

A very high skin of cloud, on a blustery day.

Allotment afternoon

A morning downpour gave way suddenly to blue skies, and then a windy afternoon.  The fragmenting clouds here are taken from our allotment. 

Saltire in the sky

Perhaps it's because it's Summer, with time to cloud-watch, that I suddenly want to capture a tiny part of the ever-changing cloud activity every day.  While I'm aiming for a daily post, life will sometimes get in the way.  And while the skies will mostly be Scottish, there will be days when I'll be under other skies.

Two posts today to start with.  The first is a classic Saltire - the Scottish flag - from yesterday, just to get things going.  Aircraft are very obliging in forming the Scottish flag.   Today's cloudscape so far is unremitting grey, but I'm hopeful of a change later.  If that doesn't happen, I'll post what I see.