I love autumnal cloudscapes
Thursday, October 15th, 2020 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kAnd this post has three of them!
I've been spending more time on my beadwork and less time writing posts.
It's the very best time of the year: temperatures between 50 - 65°F (10 - 19° C) with strong breezes. A few overnight frosts have beat back the biting bugs. Our city recently permitted (leashed) dogs in most of the parks, so we've been exploring many of them.
These shots are from the Capitol Springs Dog Park (and Disc Golf Course). The tatters of Hurricane Delta had finally reached us up here in the Northcentral Midwest.
- Silky ruffles of clouds define the edge of a front in a deep blue sky above a drying prairie.
- Eight minutes later. Half the sky is now almost clear, the other half with silky ripples of low white clouds.
- Twenty minutes later. Pale blue sky hosts low clouds to the horizon which combine fluffy and about-to-rain over a late-fall prairie with brown stalks. (The rain never hit us.)
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Date: 2020-10-16 03:02 am (UTC)Oh, from like a month ago, but I asked my co-worker, and she said Clouds Manual by Haynes Publishing was quite good for learning clouds.
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Date: 2020-10-16 05:48 pm (UTC)That last photo is particularly gorgeous. The contrast between the light and shadows is incredible.
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Date: 2020-10-16 10:02 pm (UTC)AMEN! They're a free, all-day spectacular!
Thanks
Date: 2020-10-16 10:03 pm (UTC)Ooooo! Oooo!
(What is time anymore?)
And the author's name is Storm Dunlop, I must order this immediately.
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Date: 2020-10-16 10:11 pm (UTC)<3 They're keeping me hopeful. All kinds of change all day.
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Date: 2020-10-16 10:11 pm (UTC)Are you wise in the ways of clouds? Like knowing their names and how/why they form and such?
They do feel bigger
Date: 2020-10-16 10:13 pm (UTC)...and I think it's got something to do with lower buildings and wider streets.
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Date: 2020-10-16 10:13 pm (UTC)... we've got LOTS of leaves to admire as well -- hope they're painting the view in your town, too.
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Perfect icon as always
Date: 2020-10-16 10:15 pm (UTC)Yeah it blew my mind -- and that was right out of my phone, no filters, no fussing. The prairie flowers have stored up a summer's heat and continue to radiate into these cooler days. (Frost last night.)
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Date: 2020-10-16 10:15 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2020-10-16 11:51 pm (UTC)Thanks.!
Date: 2020-10-17 12:07 am (UTC)I'd love to see some seaside pics if you have any time.
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Date: 2020-10-17 12:08 am (UTC)Re: Thanks.!
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Date: 2020-10-17 01:28 am (UTC)Ahhhhhhh. Lovely, thank you very much. I guess I should resurrect following people on Flickr, given that you have so many fabulous shots there.
(I love Midwestern landscapes, and most definitely the people, but damn I miss the hours I spent looking at nothing over Duxbury Bay.)
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Date: 2020-10-17 08:38 am (UTC)I recommend The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, it's interesting, soothing and easy to read.
ETA: Sorry for all the edits! But anyway, about your clouds--I can say that they are low-lying cumulus clouds.
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