Do you pledge to fight 'blue sky thinking'?  

I admire your sinewy prose style.
Well, it is almost raining everyday here. But I still like the raining day though it is ordinary. When the sun emerges from behind the clouds, I will be a wonderfulday. People seem to be tired of the weather here. In my opinion, however, even the sunset is different everyday!

I love clouds. Ever since I can remember I have loved watching the clouds and seeing the pictures in them. My dad encouraged me to find the oictures in the clouds, I encouraged the girls and now the grandchildren. I always look for a cloud if the sky seems all blue and usually find at least one fluffy lamb like one. I have seen castles and witches and animals in the clouds and have to agree with the Cloud Appreciation Society.

I love clouds. Fluffy white summer clouds that pretend they're not about to explode on you. Big dark black clouds that make it obvious that we'll have rain but leave you wondering when it will happen. I look up at clouds with my children and we say what they look like. Blue skies are ok for a novelty but I wouldn't want them too often. Living in Middle England, our weather is extremely varied. It is often necessary to check four or five different weather forecasts from different places to know what kind of mix we'll get. It's nice to have such interesting weather but it's a bit of a pain when you think everywhere is not too cold and not too wet but then you get soaked all of a sudden.

I think I have gone off on a tangerine. You asked about clouds, didn't you? Well, I won't join the cloud appreciation society but there must be hundreds of occasions when I've wished I had a camera to take cloud pictures. They are very pretty and interesting.

In C.S.Lewis' 'Space Triligy' there's a couple that love all weather and that's how I am. No matter if it's sunny, stormy, raining, or dull and grey I love it! The weather causes life to be atmospheric and makes me feel alive. I think that the differences are interesting. As for clouds, yes I agree, they add dimension to the skies and their beauty can be indescribable. I sometimes stay in a Franciscan hermitage, on my own in a field of sheep and horses and the skies there are often remarkable. I've spent many happy hours staring at clouds that are pristine white with grey, gold and pink around the edges, watching the shapes change.

I have nothing against a pure blue sky though, not that we've had many of those lately!

You would have no problem recruiting members for your "Cloud Appreciation Society" here in south central Texas, at least not this year. It seems that it is always feast or famine when it comes to rainfall. The beginning of last year was unusually wet. It was hard for me to believe that my fellow Texans were complaining about the rain. Well, they got their wish. In the fall the skies dried up, and we got no rain to speak of until just recently. The spring flowers were sparse to nonexistent this year. There were plenty of sunflowers this summer, but even those were stunted. Yes, please sign me up as a member in your "Cloud Appreciation Society".

Well, this was lovely to read owlwings...Blueskies...who could not love them? But again, who could not love the demonstrative clouds?
I am enthralled with your bit of writing here regarding how lovely the dew is on flower and iron railing..tis beautiful owlwings...took me right back to my days of studying literature...loved it! xoxoox Thanks for brightening my dreary day owlwings! xoxoxoox