A cloudless sky is like a blank page–boring or intimidating, depending upon whether you are a reader or a writer. A sky with a bit of cloud sketched in, now, that is a sky that’s trying to work with you. Give you a hint of a story, or the suggestion of an idea. Catnip to the distractible mind. You have to appreciate a sky like that. I can stand out in the parking lot where I’m waiting to pick up a friend, my head thrown back to see the show, spinning around until I get tangled up in the dog leashes.
We are expecting to have some fine slate-colored clouds tomorrow, which should set off the remaining leaves nicely. Throw in a few skeins of geese tumbling about trying to get their migratory arrangements settled and I may have to sit down to watch, skipping the spinning part entirely. There’s only so much drama a person can handle in a day.
Torch Lake Views 
Molly
October 12, 2011
Oh, just think how intimidated I’ve been out here in blue-sky country (not to mention tech world genius country). Yes to clouds, at least a few. We had some last week, a relief. Great photos!
Gerry
October 13, 2011
One of my brothers-out-law who grew up in New York but rolled west to California came to visit us in Michigan one fine autumn. We went to a rustic camp, had a fine time, headed home along a back road in an autumn rain under a sky full of slate clouds. The rain stopped and a rainbow appeared–one of those full-out end-to-end Great Big Rainbows–and BOL sighed. “I miss weather,” he said.
I would miss weather, too.
Joss
October 13, 2011
Thank you for reminding me to look up! You wrote something about cloud-watching last month, but I didn’t do it. Right now would be a good time to start only there’s total cloud cover so nothing really. At least it’s not raining though. I love your cloud pictures – so dainty.
Gerry
October 13, 2011
Ah. Anyone who has grown up in logging country spends a good deal of time looking up. When a person fails to watch the path ahead, a person can trip over his/her feet and tumble down in a heap. However. When a person fails to look up, a person can fail to dodge a fatal treetop tumbling down, down, down onto the person’s unwary head.
I am glad you liked the dainty clouds. You’re right of course–when the whole sky is gray flannel from horizon to horizon it’s hard to watch Developments.
P.j. grath
October 13, 2011
Yesterday I kept trying to catch falling leaves in flight. You have done better capturing cloud wisps.
Gerry
October 13, 2011
I spent one fine afternoon lying on my back in pine needles, camera plastered to face, trying to capture leaves in flight. I woke hours later, camera still in place, covered with leaves and filled with a sense of belonging to that particular spot. I believe I should instruct Rob the Firefighter to plant my remains there. (As if Rob the Firefighter would ever proceed as instructed. Good for him. He may do with the Maternal Remains what he will.)
Karma
October 14, 2011
I think that could happen to me too – staring at the sky and getting tangled in dog leashes that is!
Gerry
October 14, 2011
Cloud-watching is performed ideally while lying in the grass on a low hill. The risk there, of course, is falling asleep.
Sybil
October 16, 2011
Lovely cloud images.I love how you get them to change. I can’t seem to do that with Blogger … sigh …
Gerry
October 16, 2011
Thank you. I think each platform has its own strengths. I am fond of slideshows. Perhaps too fond.