**Clouds**

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Took these pics on the way home...







And something else...

[WCGreen]

1. Cool perspective....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I love the view from up high!

Thanks, Chris...

[struggle4progress]

3. It's really one of the best things about flying

I always want a window seat for that reason

Some great geology is visible from the air, too

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear struggle4progress!

It is!

My husband and I have the perfect arrangement. He wants the aisle, and I want the window!

Once, we were flying over the Grand Canyon, and I didn't have my camera out. I have never stopped kicking myself for that...

It would have made some really interesting pics, damn it!

Thanks for your comments...

[applegrove]

9. When I fly (usually over Canada) I can never get over the number of lakes. I'm in aw.

[AsahinaKimi]

5. Wow...

I've looked at clouds from both sides now!

[struggle4progress]

6. +

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear AsahinaKimi!

Glad I was able to show you!

[luv_mykatz]

8. Love the pics of the clouds!

The sky is always fascinating.

I can't figure out what the last picture is showing? Clues, please?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. My dear luv_mykatz!

I'm glad you enjoyed these!

That last picture is of a river, or some sort of body of water. I thought it would make a cool picture!

It is not a cloud, lol, and that's why I labelled it *something else*...

Thanks for stopping by!

:hi:

[UrbScotty]

11. My dear CaliforniaPeggy!

Wow!

That looks like a storm of some sort, with its anvil-like shape. Do you know where you were when you took those?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear UrbScotty!

Alas, I have no idea...someplace in the "flyover" section of the country, I think...

Our plane didn't come with the nifty screen that shows you where you are...

Glad you enjoyed!

[UrbScotty]

23. We had some big storms in Grand Rapids, MI

around 3:30 PM ET yesterday.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. Oh, OK...

I took these Tuesday, when I was on my way home.

[ccharles000]

12. pretty

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. My dear ccharles000!

Thanks! I thought so too...

Nice to see you today!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. It's a mix of peace and turbulence, just like life...

...especially in that second photo. On one hand, I see white, fluffy clouds, but on the other, I see the shadows and the angular shapes cutting in and out of the white.

I was finishing my BA Degree at San Jose State while my dad was dying of cancer. One of the general ed classes I had to take was Meteorology, and VERY close to the end, when he was on the morphine drip and receiving 24 hour home care, we were studying the different cloud types. It was perhaps the single greatest "WHO CARES" moment of my life. Nimbus? Cumulonimbus? WHO GIVES A FUCK?

I took that class and a creative writing class...both at night...during that semester. I know the instructor of the Meteorology class gave me a "Mercy C" for a grade. I told both professors what was happening. When I told the English professor her immediate reaction was "WHY ARE YOU HERE?" The Meteorology professor did her best to not have any reaction at all.

So when I see clouds, I tend to think of those days.

Great pix.

:toast:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. What a wonderful story, my dear AV...

Who gives a fuck, indeed?

Glad you liked my pics, sweetie...

Thank you.

:hug:

[Little Star]

16. Albert Smith, English Author (1816 - 1860) ...

"Those playful fancies of the mighty sky."


Beautiful pictures. Clouds are splendid from above or below!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. My dear Little Star!

Oh, thank you for the great quote! It's perfect...

I just LOVE clouds...especially when it's lousy and gray here on the ground, and then after we swing up in our aluminum tube, we see the glorious sun and all those bumpy cloudy cushions...

It's magic.

Thank you!

[Xipe Totec]

17. Nicely Done, Peggy!

Beautiful pictures!

I LOVE CLOUDS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQSlH-LLTQ

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. My dear Xipe Totec!

What a wonderful, wonderful song! I hadn't heard that version before, and it struck my heart...

Thank you so much for that...and for your very kind remarks, of course...

I LOVE CLOUDS TOO!


:hug:

[TuxedoKat]

18. Beautiful!

I love taking pictures of clouds, especially in the summer. Loved your Iceland pictures too. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. My dear TuxedoCat!

Thank you!

The variety of clouds is so amazing...and to think that we can capture them in pictures, while they disappear...

They are so beautiful, and yet so ephemeral...

Glad you enjoyed these, and my Iceland pictures too!

:hug:

[tainted_chimp]

25. They look delicious!

I want to drag my finger through them and gobble it up….

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. My dear tainted_chimp!

Now that's something I hadn't thought of!

Giant whipped cream mounds!

Yummy...

Thank you!

:9

[bluesbassman]

27. Spectacular Peggy!

The cropped 3rd shot is awesome! :thumbsup:

BTW, check out my flowers in the photograph forum. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. My dear bluesbassman!

Ah, thank you...

I was having fun...

And thank you for the heads-up.

I will be right there!

:hi:

[bigwillq]

29. Great pics!

:bounce: :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. My dear bigwillq!

Thanks, sweetie!

I had fun up there!

:hi: :bounce:

[Gormy Cuss]

30. Rows and flows of angel hair

And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides now

From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all


(J. Mitchell)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. My dear Gormy Cuss!

Ah, I love that song!

In fact, if you click on Xipe Totec's post upthread, you'll see that he posted a YouTube of her singing that very one!

So as soon as I saw the lyrics you posted, the melody popped into my head...

Thank you for your contribution!

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

36. Hah! The evil earworm plan is working. n/t

[Odin2005]

33. Those are awesome, Peg!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

37. I thank you, my dear Odin2005!

[6000eliot]

34. "I've looked at clouds from both sides now."

Thanks, Peggy!:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

38. My dear 6000eliot...

Aw, thank you, sweetie...

:loveya: too!

[BlueJazz]

35. My God, Peggy...on the last one you were so high, you could see..

...the curvature of the earth. !!!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

39. My dear BlueJazz!

Heheheh...

Suuuuuuuuuure you could!

;)

:hi:

[RedCloud]

40. My dear California Peggy,

I have longed to see my inlaws in their natural habitat.

I am overflowing with tears of joy,

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

41. Aw, my dear RedCloud...

Thank you...

:hug: