I saw these beautiful dramatic clouds in the sky earlier this week. I thought they were rather pretty.
Then on Tuesday, I was looking up at the mountain and I saw what looked to be a big orangey - coloured 'blob' covering the ski slopes. I hadn't seen it before so I took out the binoculars. Lo and behold, it was a huge red and white Canadian flag.
On today's news the flag makers said it took 20 days of staff working overtime to print the 60 panels that make up the flag and another week to stitch it altogether. It took another 100 people to erect and install the flag on the mountain. It's meant to welcome people to Vancouver for the FIFA World Cup which starts in a week and to participate in the Guiness Book of World Records for the world's largest flag ever unfurled on a mountain.
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| I've enlarged the photo so you can get a sense of the size of the flag. |
Here's a little news story about the flag if you're interested.
It's been warm and sunny bordering on hot for several days but as you can see it's clouding over now and rain is expected shortly.
Thank you for visiting my Skywatch Friday post.
23 comments:
Wow ... I love the human participation and cooperation that it took to build that amazing Canadian flag!
Very dramatic, and very pretty!
I love your subtly covered skies and the big huge Canadian flag.
What a wonderful way to welcome the FIFA World Cup players to Canada!
Great skies.
I was surprised by how much collaboration there needed to be to get the flag made and installed.
Thank you Yogi.
Thanks so much!
I'm happy you agree :-)
Thanks Jim!
Really lovely.
Thank you Jocelyn.
I don't know how I feel about the flag being on the ground like that...
Great sky shots. Interesting discovery on the mountain.
I understand but I guess its rather difficult to fly one that large.
Glad you enjoyed the sky shots Red.
Beautiful lighting on those first photos, well done on spotting them. I hope all is well over there. Cheers Diane
Clouds are really interesting once you start looking at them! #Skywatch
Thank you Diane. All is well except for what is going on globally and we are all facing. Hope you are rested and catching up to things after your long vacation.
They certainly are Lydia. Thanks for the visit!
Absolutely stunning!!! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you Linda :-)
I'm glad you enjoyed the photos Photo Cache.
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