I feel like a broken record because all I ever see anymore are iridescent clouds. Maybe I'm like that kid in The Sixth Sense, except that he saw dead people and I see iridescent clouds. I think I lucked out in that draw, but still... How often do I see them? All the time. They're everywhere.
That's not exactly true. They are exquisitely ephemeral. They may evolve for an hour or more, changing where they are in the sky. But I have come to have sixth sense of where to look to find them.
I look for them they way I looked for whales or dolphins in the bay. I expect their vividness the way I would feel when thousands of migrating shearwaters would turn direction simultaneously in the glittering sea. It is the charm of the sky and this dance of light that thrills me, when we no longer have the ocean before us.
It's just sunlight and water drops in clouds.
This is an hour of morning sky on January 25th.
I love this post -- especially now that I have seen them here. Yes. It is like looking for whales or falling stars or four-leaf clover.
ReplyDeleteYou have just traded one big expanse of blue for another - and finding it just as interesting!!
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful.
Once we develop a sense for seeing something, it seems that we are finding them everywhere. I was that way about tree frogs, insects, and others creatures. Enjoy the clouds.
ReplyDeleteIs this a new phenomena in your area or has this been happening for quite some time? I imagine conditions have to just right for this. It kind of reminds me of the Northern Lights.
ReplyDeleteYou do have the extra sense. I only see them via your camera.
ReplyDeleteLove those clouds! They are magic, like seeing rainbows every day. Send some of that warm weather and those crystal skies our way, PLEASE!!!
ReplyDeleteyou are a water girl. Yep.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Bev--once you see something, you start to see it everywhere. Why don't we get iridescent clouds here on the East Coast--at least not as frequently as you do?
ReplyDeleteIt was the same way with me and sun dogs. Once I started looking, it seemed like I saw them every day. Not really, of course, but really often.
ReplyDeleteOne of the few negatives about living in the mountains is that too much of the sky is obscured by other mountains. But I do love the clouds.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it's all about the rainbows nowadays...
ReplyDeleteI am starting to look up more often, but I haven't seen any irridescent skies...but in the past I have seen them. Like a rainbow, but without the rain. :-)
ReplyDeleteWonderful nacreous clouds!
ReplyDeletesuch lovely gifts are all around us for the taking. i am glad that your eye is so easily drawn to the gifts. you have a special communion with nature.
ReplyDeleteSeeing iridescent clouds is a dharma sign of the rainbow body.
ReplyDeleteOkay, that's it. I gotta look up more often. B(ut usually it's just to see raindrops coming down here in the PNW.)
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