Cloud Appreciation Day #1

[jesse_the_k]

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.

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)

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.

Comments

[ex_flameandsong751]

I LOVE

[jesse_the_k]

I live to serve ;p

[sasha_feather]

What a great holiday!

[jesse_the_k]

It felt like "more joy day" for the mundanes.

[yourlibrarian]

Great pics!

[jesse_the_k]

<3 <3

[write_out]

Love, love, love. That wall...happy sigh.

[jesse_the_k]

Huh, this fieldstone wall strikes me as a clumsy runner-up to the exquisitely tight drystone walls all over your parts.

[pauraque]

There were some pretty clouds here today too, but I didn't know it was the official day for them!

[jesse_the_k]

Between you and me, every day is cloud appreciation day.

[pensnest]

I love the clouds, but the penguin picture gives me JOY.

[jesse_the_k]

Coastal/island landscapes are my faves, such as

Brynjumannaborð, Streymoy, Førøyar
Georgetown, Tasmania, Australia
Casey Station, Antartica
Grand Gaube, Mauritius
Hyōgo, Japan

[luzula]

OMG the penguin one! <3

[jesse_the_k]

The penguin body always generates such delight in me and many other humans.