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July 2024

 

7/3/2024

*Be sure to check past blog posts. I may have added pages after my initial posting or I may have fixed a “dead” link to a page. Sorry of the inconvenience*  

Clouds

When I was young, like many kids do, I used to lie on my back on our lawn and look up at the clouds. I was fascinated how, with a little help from my imagination, a phenomenon called pareidolia (seeing meaningful images in random shapes or ambiguous patterns), and high altitude wind currents, the clouds would momentarily change into familiar faces, objects, etc.   To this day, I love to look at clouds and let my imagination and pareidolia take over.  

Do you see a mama bear chasing two baby bears? 

picture of clouds taken from plane.

Maybe this will help those of you without a child's imagination…

Picture of clouds with dots for eyes in bears

…and what do you see here? (like what I did with the sky color?)

Clouds above buildings look like the could be a Vietnamese lion's head.  Sky color is more tuquoise than blue.

maybe you see this Vietnamese unicorn?…maybe you don't…

Profile view of a head of Vietnamese unicorn statue looking to left.

I could easily see myself as a storm chaser. I really like storm clouds. These monsoon clouds below appeared just before a hard deluge of rain last week. I took this from my apartment window. The picture below is taken just moments later. Although you could easily think that there is a funnel cloud appearing in the left of the picture, it is simply a wisp of cloud… What I particularly like about these two pictures is that you can really see how loaded they are with moisture.  

picture of dark gary and black clouds above a dark building at bottom of picture.
picture of same dark black and gray clouds moments later...

 

 

HOMEPAGE

JUNE 

JULY, p. 9

AUGUST, p. 9

SEPTEMBER,  p. 11

OCTOBER,  p.g 2,  p. 3, p. 4

NOVEMBER p.2, p.3, p.4, p.5, p.6, p.7

DECEMBER p.2, p.3, p.4, p.5 p.6, p.7, p.8

JANUARY p.2, p.3

FEBRUARY, p.2, p.3,  p.5, 

MARCH p.2, p.3, p.4 p.5, p.6, p.7

APRIL p.2, p.3, p.4, p.5, p.6, p.7, p.8, p.9, p.10, p11

May, p.2, p.2b p.3, p.4, p5, p.6 p.7, p.8

June 24, p.2, p.3, p.4, p.5, p.6, p.7,  p.8, p.9

p.2