Cloud Appreciation Day

Today is Cloud Appreciation Day organised by the Cloud Appreciation Society. It is an internationally recognised day when people around the world are encouraged to spend a few moments appreciating the beauty of the sky. On the day, anyone anywhere can contribute their sky for free to the Memory Cloud Atlas and they can explore the Atlas as more photos are added throughout the day. We have been members for some years. I submitted this photo of some Cheshire clouds today to the atlas.

The sky, with silver swirls like locks of toss’d hair, spreading, expanding – a vast voiceless, formless simulacrum – yet may-be the most real reality and formulator of everything – who knows?”

From Specimen Days (1882) by American poet Walt Whitman.

Tonight we watched the international space station appearing in a new place and from a different direction to home, as we walked to the Cask Tavern for a Friday night, cloud appreciation drink. Cheers.