A big difference a day makes & a ghostly companion

©2019 Barry Smith - Pastel morning

Tuesday morning was a morning of pastel colours across the valley below - soft, clear and gentle.

©2019 Barry Smith - Pastel morning - highlights to the east

Wednesday on the other hand was a day of grey, forbidding, drifting cloud, whiteouts.

©2019 Barry Smith - A cloud shrouded valley

©2019 Barry Smith - Threatening layers

©2019 Barry Smith - Engulfed by cloud

We had moved from a dry spell into a rain depression which is to stay with us for quite a few days. The contrast of the two days just shows what a difference there can be in weather on the mountain.

©2019 Barry Smith - Fiona and her artists' book which is in the USC Collection

After the opening of the Women's Work from the Collection Exhibition at the Sunshine Coast University Gallery Fiona and I went to have fish and chips with her dad.

But we were not alone - a lone pelican staked out our area in the hope of leftovers. I took the photo of its head appearing over the seas wall - the very low light has resulted in a very grainy ghostly photo - but I like it.

©2019 Barry Smith - Ghostly visitor