FRIDAY SURPRISE: Look - up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...

Friday, May 22, 2009 Filed in: Friday Surprise!, Completely irrelevant

I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow,
It's cloud illusions I recall,
I really don't know clouds, at all.

-- Joni Mitchell, "Both Sides Now"


I grew up on a farm in a very rural area when that Joni Mitchell song was popular. Life was simpler, both as a consequence of the times and of our location. Things that were very entertaining for us would bore today's youth to tears; such is the consequence of instant gratification and endemic narcissism. (I suspect our parents said the same about us!)

One particular pastime was cloud watching, and some of the best was just before or just after a storm passed through. To this day, I watch the skies for unusual cloud formations, particularly in the late afternoon when the lighting becomes more dramatic.

Dark Roasted Blend has a nice pictorial of the kinds of clouds I like to see.

-=[ Grant ]=-
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