Geometric Sunset

These beautiful, high, "stacked up" clouds are typical as part of the Florida afternoon weather pattern.

May 28th - Giant Flying Pig

This Giant Flying Pig looks as though he could burn a hole through the planet with his X-Ray Vision! 

July 7th - Motion Commotion

You can sense the rapid beating of this dragonfly's wings...

June 5th - Happy Birthday Jim the Dragon Slayer!

This luminous dragon turns to look back over his wing before soaring away...

June 14th - Fire!

If I hadn't been there I would look at this cloud and think it was a plume of smoke from a huge wildfire!

May 22nd - The Ultimate Christo Installation

Fingers of cloud float across the front of these panels of blue and pink silk...

April 17th - Planet of the Apes

The profile of this ape was accentuated by the distant mountains...

April 16th - Look Toward the Heavens

This beautiful lady tilts her face up to the sky as if to drink in the perfect sunset...

March 22nd - Cottage Cheese Sky

If it costs $79.95 to install this in your bedroom, I wonder how much the price tag on this baby would be...

March 16th - Rainbow Sherbet Sky

I had the urge to scoop this sky into a big cone - I could just taste that tart combination of raspberry and orange!

March 9th - Forest Fire!

The glow from behind the trees and the reflection on the clouds above looked like flames leaping into the air. You could almost feel the heat!

March 7th - Pink Puffs

These pink puffs of cirrocumulus cloud are offset by a feather of altostratus!

January 13th - Baseball Buzzard

All I could see in these clouds today was a Buzzard wearing a Baseball Cap! The cold is definitely getting to me!

December 27th - Fantasy Flight

I would imagine this to be a fitting sky for a Neverending Story Flight through Fantastica on the back of  Falkor the Luck Dragon.

September 11th - Jack and the Beanstalk, The Pillsbury doughboy, and giant ropes

Another day of bright blue sky and white clouds - and yet the variety of each area of sky continues to amaze me.

I wanted to climb up this spiraling cloud "beanstalk" to see if there was a giant at the top!

I felt like the Pillsbury doughboy was hovering over my backyard!

These Altostratus clouds floated in front of the cumulus clouds on the horizon. It was like giant ropes were stretched across the sky.

August 26th - Mushroom cloud, breaking waves, and grey sky

It has been raining pretty much all day, and the sky is basically grey - I did manage to eek out one photo just to stay honest. The other 2 pictures are from my archive. They were taken with a Sony Cybershot about 18 months ago. These were also taken from my yard, but it was at a different house about a mile from where we live now.


High Clouds:
One of the types of high clouds are the cirrostratus clouds like the grey background in this first photo. These clouds appear in sheets that have non-distinct features. They are usually thin enough for the sun or moon to shine through.

Middle Clouds:
The clouds in the foreground of the same photo are Altocumulus (I'm pretty sure). They are either scattered or in linear bands.


Multi-layer clouds:
Cumulonimbus clouds are the most dramatic type of cloud, and produce severe weather including thunder, lightning, hail and tornadoes. They expand at the top forming an anvil shape. This is caused by the stronger winds in the higher atmosphere.

This cumulonimbus cloud looks like waves crashing upon the rocky shore.

This cumulonimbus cloud, dramatically offset by the sudden appearance of the sun could almost be mistaken for a UFO or an atomic mushroom cloud.