SkyPix

A digital photographic storybook of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards.

Collapsed Store Roof

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This store roof caved in near the intersection of Krome Ave. and Silver Palm Dr., in the "Redlands" just north of Homestead.  Note the sockets on the top of the wall at right, which did contain the roof connections.  Cables, formerly attached to the roof, dangled from an overhead wall (unseen).  The great majority of Andrew's destruction in South Florida was, like this store, wind damage well … [Read more...]

Forest in the Sky?

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Trees in the nearby forest seemed to be floating in the sky, as if they're levitating outside the windows of the airplane.  Instead they appeared fleetingly in the gaps between geothermal vapors that rise out of the ground and blow sharply rightward on south winds.  Those strengthening breezes heralded the eventual arrival of a band of thunderstorms that cast a darkening pall over the distant … [Read more...]

Life and Death in the Caldera

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In the caldera of a super-volcano, nothing is secure but the inevitability of disruption, upheaval and reordering, whether on scales of seconds and inches as scalding steam hits a bug or plant, or every 600,000 years in a series of blasts the likes of which mankind hasn't witnessed.  In between those scales, over years to decades, we see the landscapes and waterscapes of Yellowstone palpably … [Read more...]

Sunrise over Icy Pond

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Recent hard freezes built a thin veneer of opaque and reflective ice on a pond that I frequently visit for wintertime sunrises (when awake and not on shift at work, of course).  One relatively tall tree stands out as it thrusts skyward into the colorful dawn, punctuating a fluid kaleidoscope in the sky with each such event.  This has become a favorite event for me on those uncommon occasions when … [Read more...]

The Blue Ledges

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Ghostly, otherworldly beauty flows across this part of the Yellowstone landscape in the form of rivulets, wash slopes and crystalline pools of hot mineral water.  Below the surface, a mostly hidden pipe or underground stream carries this water many miles northward from the Norris Geyser Basin, where it pours from Mammoth Hot Springs supersaturated with calcium carbonate—the same compound that … [Read more...]