NPR did a little story on the UK based Cloud Appreciation Society this past week. (I can’t for the life of me remember which program. Anyone else?) Operating under the premise that “clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them,” the CAS brings together thousands of day dreamers from around the globe.

They’ve recently released their first book, the Cloudspotter’s Guide, which I’m thinking could come in handy on lazy days this summer.  Check out member submitted cloud photos, cloud poetry and music to watch clouds by.

1. Cloud Watching, 2. Just Watching the Clouds Go By, 3. Fiji Clouds at Sunset, 4. Phenomenal Cloud Day, 5. T-Heads, 6. Angry Sunset, 7. Clouds I, 8. Sunray, 9. Sunset Sky, 10. Nuvens sobre a Amazônia

THE LONELY CLOUD

We were driving along on the western slope
We were kidding and someone was telling a joke.
When all at once someone spoke,
They spoke aloud,
“Look up in the air at that lonely cloud
It looks to me like it’s lost from the crowd.”

It was just hanging there in suspended flight
It was not very big but was fluffy and white.
We thought it was probably filled with fright
about where it would go or would spend the night.

All the rest of the trip we watched in the sky
But the little cloud was gone,
We will never know where nor will we know why.

© Glen L. Ewing. 1978.

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