weather leaden

[lobelia321]

The sky today is what is often called a 'leaden sky', except it is not the colour of lead, really. It is shining white with grey smudge-like swirls in it that move from left to right at a leisurely pace. In Australia, you never get a sky like this. It makes the light diffuse. It is the kind of light popular with nineteenth-century landscape painters because it does not distort colours and is a very constant light.

The rain of earlier has stopped. Rooftiles and asphalt glisten. The cars push reflections of their headlights ahead of them, sort of puddle shadows on the tarmac before them.

White smoke puffs out from a first-floor window above a café/restaurant near the railway station.

The weather is kind of there today, a bit of a nuisance, a bit hypothetical.

Comments

[viva-gloria.livejournal.com]

am intrigued that this is what you think is being described by 'leaden sky' -- a phrase I (over)use, but by which I mean something much gloomier and more doomily lit .. the 'storms's a-coming' sky. This is almost milky (except if I had milk this colour I'd be worried).

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, gloomy, I see what you mean! More lead-coloured, dark grey? And today was milky!

Hey, it's good to be sharing a weather zone. :-)