Clouds - February 2023

This month's theme of "Clouds" brings up the half century of topics - well done to you all for sticking with it!

How about, to start with, you have a go and see if you can remember the first 4 lines of this famous poem?  It starts with:

 " I wandered lonely as a cloud .... "

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Ken - amazingly, we had a cloudless sky for our vets' match at the start of January!

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At various times during January (and without actually looking for anything), I came across 3 different clips on the BBC to do with specific cloud formations:

there was this very strange cloud formation in Turkey:

BBC clip - a UFO perhaps?

...... and then nearer to home, there was this recent cloud inversion in Derbyshire:

Mam Tor, up in the Peak District

......and even further north, there was this clip of a mother-of-pearl formation:

Mother-of pearl cloud

  

Anyway, enough of my digressions for now, here are the photos you sent in - enjoy!

Sue - "monitoring clouds"

Ken - clouds behind our silver birch

Stacey - on a short winter break in Venice

Kate - smiling cloud

Kate - tank cloud

Kate - "snow stopped play" cloud!

Don - flying through the clouds (and beautiful sunset) whilst landing at Houston!

Don - The Cloudveil Hotel at Jackson Hole, Wyoming 

(where we stayed over the New Year)

John - the best clouds in Alton!

Here are three from Steve - "weather closing in on a walk round Chichester harbour"

Keith - clouds/sunset over our back garden

Rosie - I really liked this but unless the collective name for a group of 

snowmen is a "cloud" it may not make it through the vetting process!

Here are four from Gill's winter break to Lanzarote:

Sue - from the hut on the IOW

Gaynor - from Aotearoa, “the land of the long white cloud”

Gaynor - stairway to heaven

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Here is another non-photographic bit for you all!  

It is a lovely paragraph (linked to clouds!) that was in a book called

"What I talk about when I talk about running"  by Haruki Murakami:

"The thoughts that occur to me while I'm running are like the clouds in the sky.  Clouds of all different sizes.  They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky as always.  The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.  The sky both exists and doesn't exist.  It has substance and at the same time doesn't.  And we merely accept that vast expanse and drink it in"

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....... and our topic for next month, to think about as you "wander the world" is: 

"Glass"