Showing posts with label Burgundy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burgundy. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Storm Cloud

In the summer of 2004 we had a family holiday in the Burgundy region of France.We stayed in a rural gite a short drive from the town Autun in the Morvan National Park.  It was a lovely area, with some great scenery and some pleasant villages.  The nearest village Anost has an annual fete where the locals come together to make a massive omelette, tasty...

One evening as we were sat out eating dinner I watched this cloud developing, it rolled its way across the sky unfolding new shapes all the time.  I like the smooth top surface of the cloud which resembled icing on a cake which was in contrast to the rest of the cloud which was in constant turmoil.  Within a few minutes the sky which had been clear and blue all day was filled with this this massive cloud  and it became suddenly dark and the storm which followed produced some of the loudest thunder and most impressive lightning I had seen.

I have chosen two pictures of the cloud as it developed.  I wasn't able to take many more because we had to run for shelter very shortly after... the pictures were taken using a Konica KD 400Z digital compact camera.