Tuesday, July 7, 2020

CLOUD GAZING

When I notice them I am always amazed at the shapes of the clouds in our normally bright blue sky.


I usually don't try to anthropromorphize them.

Actually that sentence was merely an excuse to use that ten-dollar word.

But anyway that cloud formation above resembles a huge white bird to me, flying from left to right.


These I think resemble daubs of meringue, sort of a big Floating Islands dessert.

You may not see them that way.


I have no idea what these are or were but they seem to be disintegrating to me, with small wisps coming off of the larger formation to the right.

I could be wrong, of course.

What I find truly amazing is that the same sky can at the same time hold these lovely white shapes against the azure sky in one direction, while turning my camera around and looking another way I find this.


That mess looks like it contains rain.

Or maybe I'm just boring bored.

I'll be interested, though, to read your views of what you view in these clouds.

10 comments:

  1. Nice photos.

    Steve

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  2. I do this all the time with clouds — post photos on Facebook of unusual formations, say what I see in them. I have to agree with the first cloud formation — it does look like a giant bird. I got nothing from your floating island dessert. The third, the one you saw nothing, I see as an arm reaching out to the left, with a head on the right, facing left, seemingly releasing puffs of smoke. I see that last one as what we’re going through now — darkness, chaos, but there’s that little blue sky opening indicating light at the end of the tunnel.

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  3. I'd have to look at the clouds from both sides now....
    I've looked at clouds from both sides now
    From up and down and still somehow
    It's cloud's illusions I recall
    I really don't know clouds at all

    Apologies to Joni.....

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  4. Yes! I see the big white bird. Love seeing the clouds there, even the dark one that looks a bit like rain.

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  5. The third image looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy in a state of undoing. Or the bottom portion is the hand of a whipped cream cloud parting out dollops.

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  6. I just love seeing the shapes against the blue sky and watching them move across the heavens! Apparently there is a comet visible in the sky during the middle of the night. I don't have good sight lines for it but it is supposed to come up in the northeast.

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  7. I love how you don't usually anthropomorphize, but then promptly do so. LOL

    I've never been good at spotting shapes in clouds. To me it all seems rather forced. I'd rather the clouds look like clouds!

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  8. Actually, your meringue one has the bird on it. There are four stepping stones, and he's aflight over the far right one, beak headed left. :)

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