Cloud Appreciation Day #1

The first annual Cloud Appreciation has been delightful. The skies over southcentral Wisconsin filled with clouds small and large, wispy and chunky, traveling all the points of the compass. This afternoon we drove to Pope Farm Conservancy, a high spot overlooking the lakes. 360° of clouds: white, gray, frond-y, zooming.

( Admiring north western horizon )

Foregrounded by a fieldstone wall, overhead a thick gray cloud drifts into more than 20 white/gray puffs over rolling hills with dark green trees and drying grasses.

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As hoped, folks from around the planet contributed to the public exhibit. My favorite for this hour is from John Montague, shooting in the Salisbury Plain of South Georgia Island in the Scotia Sea (southern edge of the South Atlantic)

( Preacher Penguin Leads the Flock )

Hundreds of tightly-packed penguins face us, while we see the back of one penguin, arms out like a conductor. The horizon is softened by a warm fuzzy "fog bow," showing the top eighth of a circle, rising from the treeless tundra.