I was just walking along when I saw this:
my mind went to this ancestral fish from the Devonian period:
I'll say it again, some clouds are living things. There are countless creatures filling the earth and the seas that mimic other organisms for protection; why should the air above us be bereft?
After fourteen years! This is the cloud, photographed as a baby back in 2012:
And now it's back, all grown up and filled out now, looking like a real tough guy. Time really passes like a fast-flowing river, doesn't it -- where did that adorable little baby cloud go!
We were supposed to get light rain today, so I took my umbrella (actually one of my eight umbrellas; why do I have so many? Because over the past several years, I've been caught unprepared in a sudden downpour a number of times, and each time I needed to duck into the nearest convenience store to purchase an umbrella) as I set out on my photo-walk. It didn't rain while I was out, but the sky was full of dark clouds and at one point I noted this distinct, rather striking cloud formation, and closing in and heightening contrast brought out some interesting details within. Looks almost like a solid object, doesn't it, like... dare I say... another "cloud creature"?
While going through unused photos in old folders, I came across this image of a "ghost in the clouds" from April, 2021.
It looked decidedly odd, so I closed in and heightened contrast, and whaddayaknow, it was a giant cell in the sky! Trying to blend in with the surrounding clouds, but it stood out with its unusually well-defined boundary (cell membrane?!) and what look for all the world like a nucleus and organelles within the "cytoplasm".
Compare to this diagram of a typical animal cell found online.
Just walking along, down a busy sidewalk, looking up at the sky every so often as I always do. And at one point I look up and see this striking pair of dense, almost solid-looking oblate spheroids. It seems cloud creatures reproduce via a process resembling cell division, just like the organic cells of terrestrial creatures. Either that, or these were UFOs hiding in plain sight inside synthetic clouds.
Demon birds, horizon-girding bat wings, yet another would-be Sun swallower, and a little flying genie, perhaps a cousin of the Dancing Rain God.
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Whether he be a harbinger of good or evil to come, only time will tell.
[Yeah, I know that's a pretty chickenshit way of foretelling the future, being so vague, broad or ambiguous that it can fit almost any situation; never mind that I've got a tome myself that contains all of Nostradamus' quatrains]
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Confrontation in the sky! A big, ominously dark and dense cloud leans threateningly into the face of a much smaller, frightened cloud, whose hackles are rising straight up.
Looks almost as if a cloud died and its ghost has come back.
But seriously, if, as I continue to believe, some clouds are actually living creatures that are indigenous to the air and that evolved to look like clouds when seen from the ground, then they are subject to birth and death, like any other living thing.
In which case the caption should read:
"Looks like a 'cloud' died -- there's its ghost."
Distinctively colored, oddly compact and well-defined -- this may well have been yet another one of those sky "amoebas" disguised as a cloud (some of its inner details actually look like organelles!). As a mass of quasi-protoplasm, it would of course have different optical properties from real clouds, and stand out as it refracts the light of the setting sun.
the Sun was swallowed up by a gigantic flying dinosaur. If we never see another sunrise after this, you'll know whom to blame.
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