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Where Do Clouds Come From?

UFOs?

On my way to  do some shopping,  I was kind of stunned by what I saw in the sky . . .

..
UFOS?

Or possibly lenticular clouds ...

On the way back home, the spaceships were gone, but I had to stop and get a picture of what I think is the shiny roof of our house in the distance 

And more clouds. . . and more. . .

 

Other Mountains, Other Skies

On the road from Mars Hill to Asheville -- the skies and mountains are beautiful -- even from a supermarket parking lot.

And farther on, the sky was so compelling that I had to pull off the interstate to take another picture.

The views from our porch will always be my favorites, but there are great shots everywhere. 

Clouds

Temperatures in the nineties today -- hot, hot, hot!

 We hoped for rain and got a magnificent cloud show just at supper time. Not much rain resulted but there was a rainbow! 

Cloud Mountain

Setting autumn sun
Warms the eastern slopes; roiling
Lavender clouds rise ...

Looming high above
The wall of Blue Ridge Mountains,
Shapeless forms converge ...

For a brief moment,
I thought I saw perfection --
Fujiyama-san.

The Heavenly Flocks

Sunday morning and what a pleasure to see blue skies above the mist rising from the river!

Those skies were a delight and wonder all day long with their great flocks of fluffy white clouds sweeping overhead, crowding and jostling together as they moved ever eastward.

The clarity of the atmosphere and the pure Carolina blue of the sky were intensified by the seemingly endless ranks of billowy clouds.

By evening though, like good sheep, they were gathered into the rosy fold beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Leaving the heavenly field clear for dreams.