It was raining this morning (as predicted) when I got up, but cleared up in the early afternoon. There was actually some sun showing, and I could hear the now resident red-shouldered hawk screaming out in the trees. I went out and was looking off to the north and east for the hawk. Something caught my eye and I turned back to the south.
WOW! This layout across the sky, this composition, this mixture of forms and shadows and various shades of white and sunlight… WOW!
I understand that there’s a huge mix here of cirrus clouds and stratus clouds and some building cumulonimbus clouds and so on. But all together? “WOW clouds.”
I grew up in Kansas for a while, saw lots of HUGE thunderstorms, even a tornado or two, and I do dearly love seeing and experiencing that kind of violent weather. But there’s a lot of simple joy in suddenly turning around and seeing a 360º panorama like this.
Simple pleasures, folks. Don’t ignore them.
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 