Walking and Climbing.

Sunday afternoon took me out with my camera.
Here it shows you how the moods of the weather changed from being still to vivacious and wild.

Blackstone Edge is a bleak rocky outcrop overlooking the Lancashire towns of Rochdale and Littleborough to the north east of the Manchester conurbation.
The A58 passes close by, en route from Halifax and Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire's Bronte Country.

Sun trying to smile

through the clouds

that tumbled down

silently caressing the earth

like the Divine Lover

that gently strokes

the spine of the horizon

sitting on a rock

pondering and

gazing into the eyes of nature

a glimpse of the sun

and a sudden outburst of laughter

filled the heavens

the mood changed

and dropped a shroud

and bequethed us with a frown

Are we not like the moods of the weather?

Quotes:

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. ~Muriel Spark, Territorial Rights, 1979

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
Bill Watterson quotes

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
George H. Allen (1922 - 1990)

Life! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning; Choose thine own time; Say not 'Good-night'; but in some brighter clime Bid me 'Good-morning'.

Aikin Barbauld (1743 - 1825)

My favourite

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
Henry David Thoreau