I was just walking along when I saw this:
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?
Not a half-moon, but a half-sun! And together with that cloud the whole scene looks for all the world like Sun and cloud were pushing and flattening themselves out against each other. Makes me think of bulls locking horns and testing each other's strength. Or perhaps "Irresistible force meets immovable object".
One of the oddest sights I've caught on camera in some time.
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.
Reminds me of ocean sunfish, except this one doesn't have the distinctive dorsal and anal fins. Mayhap the fluid-resistance differential of air and water is responsible?
The latest, and perhaps the most dramatic so far, appearance of Dracovolans australocaliforniensis maximus.
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