Cloud Appreciation Society

*Twist cone? Goddess? Taken from the Parking Lot of Just Food Coop in September 2023*

This coming Friday is Cloud Appreciation Day! What will you see today if you look up and out?

To learn more about clouds and how they are formed, and to see some of the most amazing cloud, mist, and rainbow photographs, dip into the website of the Cloud Appreciation Society. You can sign up for their free occasional newsletter and view current “Cloud of the Day” and “Cloud of the Month” photographs submitted by members from all over the globe.

I am so grateful that a friend gifted me with a membership a few years ago. Certainly I am seeing clouds more clearly. Just as certainly, each day has that little bit of extra evanescent joy that makes life even sweeter. Websites not for you? Try founder Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s superb book, A Cloud A Day.

Whatever you do, don’t forget to look up each day and spend a few breaths allowing your earthly concerns to dissolve!

*A Lowering Sky with Power Lines, Recently Along County Road 9*

LESLIE

This book was an eye-opening gift to me from a friend (Thank you, Ann!) Through it, and the membership I now hold in the Cloud Appreciation Society, along with their daily email of an image and an explanation of the science behind clouds, I have become ever more alert to the forms and beauties of the skies. I even like cloudy days a little bit better–though not completely socked-in grey skies like Northfield is experiencing in this moment. Not enlightened enough for that, clearly!

Background for My Poem “Views/Points”:

This poem is a mystery to me. The orange and white just appeared. Possibly a longing for summer was the root of this imagist construction.

Sunflower in Our Garden, 2021 (Photos: Leslie Schultz)

Happy reading! Happy writing! LESLIE

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