Cloudscapes Volume VII

Cloudscapes Volume VII

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    • #548501
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
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      As Duncan noted at the wrap of Volume VI, the clouds on International Cloud Appreciation Day did not disappoint for many sky observers across the globe. Even those who found a blank blue canvas above expressed gratitude for what comes and goes, forms and flows on the whims of winds and wishes. What new visions await us in Volume VII? Here’s a start with a cloudscape that looks as if a leafy tree was employed as a sky artist’s paintbrush.

      IMG_2906_Sky Artist's Paintbrush

    • #548512
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Keelin, thanks for starting up a new volume.  I did enjoy the international day.  I saw yours too.  I just didn’t see any dramatic clouds that day.  Very fun to contribute.  Happy autumn.  Just having some color changes and cooler temps.

      Always A Bike RideP1120259 (2)

    • #548879
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Inviting scene, Ruth! And that path looks like it would make a wonderful ride. Hopefully one that is smoother than this textured sky.

      IMG_3224_Rough Road Ahead

      Rough Road Ahead

    • #549428
      Duncan Bulman avatarDuncan Bulman
      Participant

      Sometimes we say that we got booted out of a thermal – this must be the culprit.

      IMG_20220928_144311

    • #549429
      Duncan Bulman avatarDuncan Bulman
      Participant

      What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours

      From this to…

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      this

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    • #549529
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Keelin, rough road could be a nice bowl of cottage cheese.  Yum.

      Duncan, great skies for you to ride.

      Hoping I caught the Big Curl.  Only May Be. P1120995 (2)

       

    • #550748
      Jill Zignego avatarJill Zignego
      Participant

      Highway clouds…..CAB8FFEF-710F-4A7D-B032-D33364F1DA3B

    • #551920
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Quite a boot there, Duncan! Glad you made it down safely. And a dramatic skyful you captured along the highway, Jill.

      Ruth, it sure looks like you caught those curls just in time. We all know how quickly clouds move…

      IMG_3264_Heartless? Not for long!

      Heartless? Not for long! ;)

    • #552381
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Jill, your highway clouds are a moving along.  I can feel a cool breeze too.

      Keelin, a deck of hearts.  The sky does love you.

      Looking back a few years, always about the ride and now it’s about the clouds.P1020676 (2)

    • #553061
      Duncan Bulman avatarDuncan Bulman
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      IMG_20221028_140048

    • #553736
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
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      Duncan, you are so correct.  Cloud spotting can happen with any activity.  Super cool photo above.  Abstract with tons of textures.

      Wide Load

      P1044470 (2)

    • #554076
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      May be a Fluctus snuck in the scene.P1060742 (2)

    • #554174
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      You’re so right, Duncan. It can be both—and what a wild ride your latest photo looks to be. Fabulous and other worldly.

      And Ruth, the road certainly beckons seductively, Wide Load fits its title well, and I think a curling iron is evident in your latest.

      IMG_1635_Moonball

      Moonball

    • #554365
      Duncan Bulman avatarDuncan Bulman
      Participant

      After a foggy morning the sky turned to this.  In the centre is a fallstreak hole, this is the second of two that appeared within about an hour of each other.

      IMG_20221113_151736

    • #555416
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Great photo, Duncan! Leave it to fog to lift the curtain on a surprising cloudscape. Glad you were in the audience.

      IMG_3520_Fan Dance

      Fan Dance

    • #557206
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Keelin, boy do I have a vision of a fan dancer.  Lovely photo plus I think I see a dog with a ball.  Let’s all play.

      Duncan.  I have yet to see a fallstreak hole.  Can’t wait.  Very interesting picture.

      Spinning TopP1120696 (2)

    • #557796
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
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      Settling InP1130187 (2)

    • #558398
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Dancing In The StreetP1011662 (2)

    • #558744
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Ruth, you’ve really captured the vast beauty in those your Montana cloudscapes! Settling In is especially captivating. I can feel the cool dampness of those low clouds.

      IMG_3558_Old Paintbrushes!

      Old Paintbrushes

    • #560049
      Gregory Venarsky avatarGregory Venarsky
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      Love the mountains as always Ruth. And Keelin your old paintbrushes seem to have painted the sky marvelously.

      Here is a cloudscape from a few miles from my house. Hope you enjoy!

      IMG_20220526_131349135-min

      Growing

    • #560413
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Thanks, Gregory! And what a sky full of promise you’ve captured in Growing. The landscape has the look of a vineyard. Will the water that falls there eventually become wine?

      IMG_3564_Felicitations

      Felicitations

    • #561361
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Keelin you always capture the beauty of clouds.  Soft and inspiring.

      Gregory, your photo is just plain luscious.  Wonderful landscape.

      Moonscape

      P1045024 (2)

    • #561604
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Thanks, Ruth! And what a gorgeous moon shot you captured there. I can imagine it held you in place for awhile, even though the night air may have been rather cool.

      We are having wild, wet weather here in California. Feeling very grateful to not be situated in the zones that are currently flooding while my heart goes out to those not so fortunate. Mother Nature is definitely in charge!

      IMG_3861_Wet & Wild cloudscape
      Wet & Wild

    • #561869
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Keelin, hoping you are not in a flood state yourself.  Just awful week in CA weather history.  But you caught a grand photo which made the gallery.  I grew up in Sacramento so I still follow the west coast happenings.

      Quiet HereP1120916 (2)

    • #561876
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Thanks, Ruth. Fortunately not in a flood zone, but know others who have had to evacuate. Too much of a good thing all at once here on the west coast. Quiet Here looks so peaceful!

      IMG_3864_Got Rain Boots?

      Got Rain Boots?

    • #562721
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Keelin  Got rain boots is so correct with all that water in CA.  The roads are a mess.  We had bad floods last spring and wiped out roads in Yellowstone.

      Filling Up The Sky P1044324 (2)

    • #562977
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      an Arizona Cloudscape

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    • #564484
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
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      Arizona Cloudscape#2

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    • #565009
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Michael, love your last two photos.

      Dinner Plates On The MoveP1020221 (2)

    • #565381
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      A sky full of lennys! cool! Thx Ruth!

      Cloudscape #3

      july3022b7912scape

    • #565609
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Got room for more on those great dinner plates? Love the latest servings.

      IMG_3827_Blotchy Blues

      Blotchy Blues

    • #565888
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Keelin, love the tree and shades of blue.

      Michael, #3 must be a pileus you captured.  Cool shot.

      Last of the Plates

      P1020210 (2)

    • #566092
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Move On OverP1055333 (2)

    • #566697
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Ruth, I love the smooth glide of that Last Plate slipping into place. A quiet scene compared to the buildup happening above.

      In between storms in Santa Cruz (California) last week, there was this view from the wharf where a great exchange was taking place—clouds becoming sea as sea became cloud.

      IMG_4062_The Meeting Place

      The Meeting Place

    • #566842
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Keelin, I love your sky meets water.  A perfect blend.  Hope it was a fun trip.

      Heading West (actually to the ocean)P1130044 (2)

    • #566852
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      First post and not sure of procedure yet. I’m also beginning with cloud ID. Cirrus but what kind and maybe cirrocumulus at the bottom?IMG_2309 (2a2)

    • #566900
      Lisa Watters avatarLisa Watters
      Participant

      Like  many across America, we have been buried in snow this Winter.  Now the sun is peeking out.  I love how these clouds hug the mountainside; they still have a little snow left to drop.12-28

    • #566931
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      Just your typical downtown cloud…. WA state.

      IMG_6570 (3a2)

    • #566974
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Great cloudscapes Robert. I already noticed you found the part of the Forum dedicated to cloud identification, but here you have also posted a cirrus sky with the question what kind of cirrus there are in your first post here. It s not an easy one in my opinion. To begin with the streaks of cirrus perpendicular to each other betray the duplicatus variety of cirrus being present at different levels in the sky. It may seem a bit arbitrary but I see a lot of different kinds of cirrus: fibratus, uncinus, intortus and vertebratus as well. The woolly tufts at the bottom of the image seem to me altocumulus, being too large to be cirrocumulus. I am curious for other opinions.

    • #566981
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      The cloud in the post at 7:00 a.m. was just part of a really huge cloud formation with different compoments. I’ll post 4 photos showing different apsects of the entire cloud. This first one was taken at my house (the earlier one was about a mile away in town). This firt photo shows parts of four major components, which all seemed to be tied together.

      IMG_6559 (2a)

    • #566982
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      This photo shows the part of the cloud that was at the top of the formation from this viewpoint. I was looking almost straight up.

      IMG_2610 (2a)

    • #566983
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      This is a pan photo, which is why there is a curve, and shows just 2/3 to 1/2 of the entire cloud left to right.

      IMG_6568 (2a)

    • #566984
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      And finally I had to drive back downtown and then several miles out to get a good photo of one end of th cloud formation. I hope iy was okay to approach it like this. Each photo is kinda cool on it’s own merit, and there was no way I could get eve close to the entire could formation in oe photo.

      IMG_6579 (2a)

    • #567068
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      Holy cow! Multiple lenticular clouds with one doozy. Washngton, USA.

      0W0A0411 (2a)

    • #567102
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Robert, a big welcome to you and your incredible photos.  Before I forget, you should consider sending your above photo to the gallery or cloud-a-day.  It is out of this world!!  Hope you are enjoying posting on the forums.  I love the forums for sharing and learning.  There is some humor too.

      Sliver Of LightP1022311 (2)

    • #567136
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      Clouds in the belfry.

      IMG_6128 (3a)

    • #567147
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      Hi Ruth. I’m really enjoying going through all the great cloud photos on the forums. I’m  a little lost on what the different categories are for, like the cloud a day and gallery. I’m not sure what is appropriate for each. I’m still learning the clouds and have many I’m unsure of, like in this photo.

      0W0A2701 (3a)

    • #567693
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Robert, your photos are definitely exciting.  I am fairly new to cloud spotting myself.  I would take a guess that your recent clouds maybe cirrus.  If you haven’t already purchased ” The Cloud Collector’s Handbook by Gavin, it is a great and constant recourse for me.  I bought my copy on Amazon for around $13.  The cloud library on this website is dandy too.  Keep them pictures coming.  You will meet some fun folks that are witty and knowledgeable.

      A Small CakeP1110380 (2)

    • #568200
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Up Up And AwayP1100027 (2)

    • #568692
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Thanks, Ruth! Hope your visit to the ocean was a fun trip for you too. Sliver of Light is quite a delight, and Small Cake has no calories, right?

      Lookinup, your snowy scene reminds me of x-country skiing days. What a great view!

      And Robert, welcome — so delighted you are posting to the Forum topics. You have a keen eye for clouds in their many forms of splendor no matter what category they happen to fall within.

      Here in northern California, we’re ready for more of the wet stuff.

      IMG_4309_Expecting Another Downpour

      Expecting Another Downpour

    • #568694
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      For those who enjoy a playful sense of pareidolia, you might find a puppy about to splash into a rain puddle below (may be easier to see when the image is made smaller).

      IMG_4307_Puppy in a Puddle

    • #569161
      Ariel Kotker avatarAriel Kotker
      Participant

      Some absolute beauties on here! I’m so thankful for everyone sharing their sights.

      Just before sunrise this morning, this wispy bit floated by what I guess is an upper perihelion and a faint sun pillar, beaming out a crepuscular ray from the other side. BA9E5BC1-6951-454B-82CD-824732B09A2F

    • #569371
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Arizona Cloudscape

      july3022b7837scape

    • #569748
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      potpouri0W0A5344 (3a)

    • #569860
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      I posted this in Contrails and don’t know if posting in two threads is okay, but the photo seemed worthy of a cloudscape post. In addition to the contrail there is a very symmetrical and smooth lenticular cloud above Mt Rainier, and really interesting background clouds. What the background clouds may be, I don’t know.0W0A6549 (2b)

    • #570066
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Robert, both photos are stunners.  Your latest is a mouth dropper!  I will guess your clouds in question could be Altostratus if it is a mid-level cloud.  Another member may have a better idea.  So glad you joined the forums.  Your photos are a real treat.

      A Variety PackP1130597 (2)

    • #570100
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      Thanks Ruth. I’m really glad to have found the society. It’s a lot of fun looking at all the photos and posting too. Everyone haas great photos! The closer you look at clouds, the more you find. I like photos like your last one that shows different types in the same sky. There are clouds to fit every mood.IMG_4832 (2a)

    • #570747
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Glacier National ParkIMG_0009

    • #571899
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Clouds Having FunP1055441 (2)

    • #572224
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      Light behind the clouds0W0A9227 (2a)

    • #572396
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      Lenticular clouds with a hint of sunset0W0A2317 lenticular

    • #572489
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      Wispy cirrusIMG_5579 (2a) (2)

    • #572640
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      Robert, what an impressive lenticular cloud with a hint of sunset. Love it.

      Love the play of light in your “Light behind the clouds” too, Ruth.

      2023-04 Charigny (21)-1

      Stormcloud

    • #573220
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Hans, that was a big fella.

      Escape RouteP1090072 (2)

    • #573440
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      From delicate to robust, you’ve all been capturing the clouds ways that amaze! Thanks to all for sharing their skyfuls of wonder.

      IMG_4823_Coming Soon!

      Coming Soon!

    • #574038
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Keelin, those are some hefty clouds.

      Weather Moving InP1033258 (2)

    • #574374
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      An ominous mood, Ruth.

       

      Here’s some more incoming with wind.IMG_9717 (2-2) (2a)

    • #574375
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      Lines in the skyIMG_5259 (2a)

    • #574544
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Arizona Cloudscape

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    • #574660
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Looks like some seriously wet weather heading for Ruth and Robert while Michael gets playful clouds tumbleweeding their way across AZ skies.  Just never know what will roll in.

      IMG_3327_Sky Surf

      Sky Surf

    • #575056
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Michael, nice clouds you caught.  Keelin, surfs up.  Robert, always mesmerizing photos.

      Not HarshP1055927 (2)

    • #575111
      Bill Standerfer avatarBill Standerfer
      Participant

      Some severe weather on the Colorado Front Range east of Fort Collins a couple of days ago.  The wide view shows the cumulonimbus with a little dust being kicked up in the lower center part of the photo.  The close up view shows a landspout (a non supercell tornado) in open country which, as far as I know, caused no damage.  We see a lot of landspouts in this area during thunderstorm season.

       

      WES_20230606__Z7B2935WES_20230606__Z7B2930

    • #575113
      Bill Standerfer avatarBill Standerfer
      Participant

      Thunderstorms building over the Mosquito Range in the Colorado Rockies yesterday from 12,500′.  In the distance is rain falling over Leadville, Colorado.  On the left are the two highest mountains in Colorado, hidden in the clouds.

       

      WES_20230607__Z7B2966

    • #576014
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Bill, stunning photos from your airplane.  That must be the best way to cloud spot!!

      Majestic

      P1020576 (2)

    • #576235
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Ruth, I love the soft, subtle colors you capture in many your photos. Your recent Asperity’s over Wolf Creek featured on the Gallery has such a quiet beauty.

      Bill, thanks for sharing your dramatic skies there. Thunderstorm season sounds exciting!

      On a recent flight to Colorado, I was lucky to have window seat…

      IMG_4973_In Flight Entertainment

      In Flight Entertainment

    • #576241
      Bill Standerfer avatarBill Standerfer
      Participant

      Ruth and Keelin, thanks for the comments.  I love to fly around buildups like that before they get too big when I can stay out of them.  You can almost literally reach out and touch them, but they are pretty bumpy inside.  Once they turn into thunderstorms, though, I give them a wide margin.

      WES_20180818__8511281 small

    • #576309
      Duncan Bulman avatarDuncan Bulman
      Participant

      Hi folks, it has been a while.

      After so many days of just blue sky over the last few weeks the clouds have once again graced us with their presence and they didn’t disappoint.

      Yesterday’s sky over the airfield.  Honestly, the picture doesn’t do it justice it was much more sublime than any photograph can capture.

      GRL

    • #577009
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Arizona Cloudscape

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    • #577238
      Ariel Kotker avatarAriel Kotker
      Participant

      BD8DD083-D9FC-404C-977B-447496A7E66A

      blue-white-blue

    • #577285
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Nice photos everyone.  Rays, airplanes, and fluffy clouds.

      A Green FieldP1020728 (2)

    • #577782
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Soft and Fluffy

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    • #577800
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      Airbrushed cloudsIMG_1315 Tom

    • #578157
      Robert Pearson avatarRobert Pearson
      Participant

      Anyone have and ID for these unusual clouds?IMG_2303a

    • #578188
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Robert, some nice photos you have going.  I will take a stab at your second capture.  It looks to me like a mammatus cloud formation.  There may be other members who have another thought.

      Take The High RoadP1120257 (2)

       

    • #578987
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
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      A Simple CurlP1055988 (2)

    • #580796
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Big and FluffyP1130970 (2)

    • #581189
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Everywhere and No WhereP1130969 (2)

    • #581835
      Michael Lerch avatarMichael Lerch
      Participant

      Arizona Cloudscape

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    • #581980
       avatarAnonymous
      Inactive

      Nice thread!

      DSCN2050downsize

      Devon, UK 1/09/23

    • #583463
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Tony, nice to have you join the thread.  Lovely photo.                              Vast is the SkyIMG_20230913_100627883

    • #583902
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      The Glob

      P1140155 (2)

    • #583908
       avatarAnonymous
      Inactive

      Thanks Ruth. That’s definitely a glob – we get them here. This one’s curly.DSCN2339

    • #584038
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Wow, nice work, everyone!

      IMG_5088_Colorado Cloudscape

      Colorado Cloudscape

    • #584118
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Tony, once again a great capture in your curly one.

      Keelin, Colorado sky in showing quite the dance.

      Yep, Saucers.P1140178 (2)

    • #584879
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
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      Roll Up The CarpetP1140317 (2)

    • #585339
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
      Participant

      I scrolled a lot back before posting a new cloudscape and enjoyed amazing cloudscapes by all. I just want to mention Robert Pearson with his ‘Lenticular clouds with a hint of sunset’. I love that one in particular. Did you ever consider to send this one (or another) to the gallery to share it with a lot more members, Robert? Find the “Sumit an image” button at the top right of the gallery page. I look certainly forward to your contributions(s?). The mamma you spotted is also quite remarkable.

      2023-09 Thedirac (170)-1

      Crown

    • #586861
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
      Participant

      Hans, some mamma in your shot.  Exciting photo.

      The MushroomP1066856 (2)

    • #586927
      Patricia L Keelin avatarPatricia L Keelin
      Participant

      Ruth, can you send your Saucers over here? I love how you caught that gentle light and soft blue below their hovering features. Beautiful!

      And Hans, your Crown is a glorious celebration!

      IMG_5663_Soft Clouds Late In The Day

      Soft Clouds Late In The Day

    • #587921
      Ruth Quist avatarRuth Quist
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      Keelin, looking like a fine morning in your soft clouds.  Maybe some spirits dancing too.

      Morning DramaP1011385 (2)

    • #588093

      Sometimes I look up and am amazed at the sheer size of clouds

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      MI #2
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