THE CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY

Because of some news that has flashed across my computer screen in the past week it has come to my attention that the cloud formations I have had form over my home 4 different times in the past year have gotten the attention of the Meteorological community as they have been forming in different locations all over the world.

You can see my pictures here and here and here

You can read the story here. The clouds happen to be the Clouds Of The Month at the Cloud Appreciation Society. I have submitted my photos to both groups along with some of the weather information that was a part of these events at my home for the research these groups are doing at this time.

I also found this at The Cloud Appreciation Society and just love it. It pretty much describes how I feel and why looking towards the sky is something that has fascinated me since I was a little boy.

It's the Manifesto of The Cloud Appreciation Society.


WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned
and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.

We think that they are Nature’s poetry,
and the most egalitarian of her displays, since
everyone can have a fantastic view of them.

We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it.
Life would be dull if we had to look up at
cloudless monotony day after day.

We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the
atmosphere’s moods, and can be read like those of
a person’s countenance.

Clouds are so commonplace that their beauty is often overlooked.
They are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul.
Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save
on psychoanalysis bills.

And so we say to all who’ll listen:
Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and live life with your head in the clouds!
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“I love the clouds… the clouds that pass…
up there… up there… the wonderful clouds!”
[The Stranger, Charles Baudelaire]