Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.”
Many years ago, I woke up to an amazing sight:
Fields and fields
Of foamy clouds in the sky!
I had to stop and talk to those clouds
For a very long time.
(All photos from my archive of 2010.)
For more floating clouds, please visit: Skywatch.
Lady Fi 
These are amazing captures Ladyfi!
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wow – really so amazing 🙂
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Looks like rolls of cotton batting on an ocean of sky blue.
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What an amazing sky.
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Amazing clouds formations, the reflections are pretty too. Wonderful sky captures, have a happy day and weekend ahead!
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WoW! Just WOW!!!!!!
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I agree. 🙂
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Oh wow,lovely clouds Fi.
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Oh My! I have never seen clouds anything like these. It feels almost alien…
You captured them beautifully! Not scary at all 😉
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Wonderful sky with clouds, beautiful picture !! Excellent perspective and reflections !!
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Cloud formations can be quite amazing and each is so unique. You really caught some great shots!
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Looks like the sky is full of fluffy cotton! Really amazing.
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That’s a remarkable cloud formation! I wouldn’t be able to stop gazing at it 🙂
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Our nature is unbelievable beautiful. And you get the gift to catch this moment! Thank you!
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So beautiful!
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I find myself doing the same as Thoreau, especially after seeing skies such as yours. Your photos are always exquisite!
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Wow!! Absolutely fabulous… amazing sight to be captured by you. Field of clouds! how cool?
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This is so beautiful! I’ve never seen clouds formed like this. They look like a chenille blanket.
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Wow! Wow! and Wow!
Fiona, these photo captures are AMAZING! As one of your other readers said, that sky almost looks alien! And I love how you captured its reflection in the water.
Brilliant, my friend!
X
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Have never seen clouds quite like that. They sure did deserve a good conversation. 🙂
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These are amazing sights, never saw them anywhere!
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truly amazing sky – the lines of clouds makes me dizzy
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If it’s this stunning, who wouldn’t like to strike a conversation? Beautiful, to say the least.
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i love it when God gets to plowing (ploughing) his sky. 🙂
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The clouds are beautiful ripples !! superb
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Makes me feel like I could reach up and run my hand along the ceiling of clouds…Such wonderful images.
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It looks like ploughed snow!
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Absolutely stunning.😀😀
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen such fantastic clouds before. They do look like plowed furrows. Thanks for sharing these from your archives.
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Wow! Amazing photos!
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Stunning sky and photo’s
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Amazing cloud formations!
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these are amazing and quite rare. Thanks for sharing them.
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Looks like a piece of gauze material being held overhead – wonderful cloud structures Fiona!
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Oh my! I’ve never seen cloud cover like that. This is mesmerizing.
The last shot of the sky reflected is stunning!!!
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Spectacular!
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That is extraordinary. I believe it’s called a mackerel sky (altocumulus) but I’ve never seen one as pronounced as that.
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Your photos are So beautiful !
Stunning !
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That’s spectacular!
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I’m glad you republished them. Cool formations. Just awesome.
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A beautiful sight to behold …
I am in awe 🙂
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Really awesome and fabulous photos of this spectacular event.
Best regards, Synnöve
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Wow! Rippled air currents made visible – these shots are breath-taking!
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Absolutely phenomenal!!!…:)JP
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Beautiful buttermilk sky. I have never seen one so extensive.
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just awesome!
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Cloud Fields! altocumulus undulatus
ALOHA from Honolulu,
ComfortSpiral
=^..^=
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Breathtaking sights!!
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Such magical photos.
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The clouds are really cool, but it is their reflection which really carries the magic.
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Cool clouds, I have seen these only once all lined up just before a big storm. You captured them very nicely! I hope you have spring there! 🙂
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Now that’s what I would call a textured ceiling! 🙂
Very beautiful captures!
Lindy
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Amazing views.
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Totally awesome view, Ladyfi
What a blessing to wake up with such beauty.
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Amazing clouds! Breath taking shots.
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These are absolutely amazing!!
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Awesome! I bet you felt completely enveloped in clouds with the clouds above and the clouds reflected in the water below. Have a great weekend. xx
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My goodness, the cloudscape is so fantastic.
Worth a Thousand Words
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The cloud formations are wonderful.
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Impressive sky, never seen something like this ! Great !
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superbe le deuxième cliché
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WOW! What an interesting phenomena! So lucky to have caught that on film!
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Incredible!
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I have never seen cloud formations like that…what an amazing sight!
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I’d talk to them, as well! It’s like a ceiling, as are the blossoms in the previous post! Wow!
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Amazing clouds! Almost surreal. 🙂
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Wow, how interesting and so well captured!
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Looks like there’s a lot of wind heading that way!
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Wow, Lady Fi, Your pics are always great but these … Oh My! Love the clouds and reflections!
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Amazing!
So, Peniche? Will you surf there? 😉
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Yes, the kids are going to surfcamp to learn how to surf…
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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it’s just an awesome sight…times 2!! the reflection is incredible!!!!
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Wickedly weird in a good way. Not sure if I got high or vertigo from looking. Shockingly, coming down off it was mellowing. O’ you is the go to ‘Supplier’ for a sensation junkie such as I.
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A-M-A-Z-I-N-G !! I have never ever seen a sky like this. WOW, I am totally flashed!
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stunning. it’s like a blanket of down ready to cover your landscape
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Wow, that is a seriously amazing sky! Such a wonderful capture!
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Fantastic cloud and reflection shots!
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Beautiful!
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i can relate
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I’ve never seen anything like that. What a blessing to awake to such extraordinary beauty. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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I have seen stunning cloud formations like this over at my neck of the woods. They remind me of ripples in the sand after the tide goes out.
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These photos are visual poetry! Just lovely!
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Absolutely phenomenal! What a treat to be able to enjoy these images.
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Undoubtedly the most stunning set of pictures I have seen on you blog. Completely blown away!
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Amazing as always.Beautiful!
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Right place at the right time. Lucky you! These are amazing captures.
JM, IL
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Amazing. indeed! I would have been floored too. Gorgeous photos.
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And now I’m floating Fi … beautiful captures
“Adelaide and Beyond”
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beautiful heaven!
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A quilted sky all for you, Fi.
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Amazing sky indeed, wonderful images!
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oooh, how I would love to see something like this. I would’ve stopped and talked with the clouds for a long while, too.
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I should stop and take time to talk to the foamy clouds.
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Wow, this is amazing, Fiona. I love the shapes of clouds. Every day they are different. Fantastic post. Greetings, Joke
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mesmerizing
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Absolutely stunning!
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Wow! I’m glad you pulled these photos out of your archive.
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Amazing visuals!
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Wow! That’s terrific and no, I don’t blame you – I do the very same thing! 🙂
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The photos are so stunning that it’s difficult to decide whether to swim in the water or in the clouds! 🙂
Greetings from London.
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Impressive! Your world is amazing, great images!
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Wow! That is an impressive sky!
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This I have never seen.
Very wonderful and very beautiful!
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Breathtaking. xo Laura
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I am not sure I can even express what these pictures elicit from me…amazement, bliss, and tears. What an incredible sight of the whole sky flowing in these clouds and reflected in the water…amazing captures.
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Really an amazing sky !!!!!!!
Greetings
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awesome clouds and photo’s, wonderful series
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Absolute beauty!
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Beautiful set of cloud photos.. Glad you stopped and ‘talked’ to them. I would do the same thing.
Hugs,
Betsy
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My goodness! That’s so amazing.
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Fields of floating clouds:) yes, yes that’s it:)
I love your images,
but your words, carefully arranged like a beautiful bouquet,
are just indescribably yummy:) Thank you,
Jennifer
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Those are amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!
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wow, you amaze me each time I see your photos of the sky…
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These clouds are amazing! And the reflection too!
Have a great week!
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I have never seen formation of clouds like this. Truly amazing how the nature works and impress us!
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Those are great clouds and awesome shots to show them off!
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Amazingly beautiful! almost surreal… !
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Hi! Nice collection of beautiful photos. I like the stained glass photo very much. Thanks for sharing.
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exquisite clouds
i have not seen clouds like these
for some reason i felt pressure inside my head while looking at them
i am a cloud lover
but something about these felt as though they were compressing something inside
so interesting
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Wow, how awesome. I’ve never seen anything like it. amazing captures.
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You know I talk to the sky too! Beautiful; I somehow didn’t catch this post earlier. Thankful for Feedly — would hate to have missed this.
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awesome patterns 🙂
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There are some mornings when they sky looks like it was painted just for us. This morning was one of those here. We had a dawn so pink I thought I was dreaming it.
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