Welcome to a safe zone.
Today was a rich day for daily clouds. I took the one above while sitting out with the donkeys. It’s stratocumulus, one of the most common of clouds. I took the photo with my Leica2.
And the Cloud Appreciation Society sent me their choice of daily cloud, cumulonimbus painted by the famed landscape photographer William Bradford.
It’s called “a thunderstorm,” and it hangs in the Cleveland museum. The CAS also sent a lovely poem to go along with the cloud by Canadian Poet Archibald Lampman.
I love this group. I’m going to start sending them some of my cloud photos.
From ‘A Thunderstorm’ (1899) by Canadian poet Archibald Lampman.
(Detail from Labrador Coast (c. 1860), depicting a Cumulonimbus storm cloud, by American marine and landscape painter William Bradford, in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.)
I love clouds too. I have watched them with great interest and observation for years. John Constable who was a terrific plein air painter said understanding the sky and capturing it in your painting goes a long way to the success of a painting.
What I notice is the nature of clouds seasonally and over the years how their nature in different seasons seem to have changed . Not that I have documentation but just a sense of it. Like how one notices differences in the garden or the land. The sky is telling us about changes in weather patterns. This coming heat wave hopefully will be broken by clouds announcing the break. Keep watching.