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#weeklyfavorites #July #August
I included this week ahead as I am unsure how much reading I will get done.

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Mid-day #hyggehourreadathon here on my porch.It‘s such a joy to be back out here after a week+ of rain keeping me indoors.Breezy,blue skies with cumulus clouds.Powder-puffs!Tagged book & it‘s accompanying journal have honed my appreciation & delight in our clouded skies.It‘s a quiet Sunday, birdsong clear.The Merlin app is picking up crow, bluejay, goldfinch song. My coffee is strong, cranberry orange biscotti not too sweet. Paradise! #porchlife

#5JoysFriday

~ Very slowly reading this book,but as a result,I am noticing clouds in a different way.These clouds formed over the Baseball stadium before sunset.
~Glued to the ypu Olympics! On my head is the Eiffel Tower headband from my #litsystaycationswap package.🇫🇷🥇
~My fabulous vicarious visit to Paris where I honeymooned thanks to @julieclair 🇫🇷
~ college team baseball game with friends. ⚾️🧢🏟️🌭

#Naturalitsy July's #buddyread

☁️ Did you enjoy the author's style?
📖 Was the text insightful and informative?
☁️ Did you learn anything new?
📖 Has reading this book made you more mindful of the clouds?
☁️ Are you spending more time cloud-gazing and daydreaming? I do hope so.

Next up -
https://litsy.com/p/d2t4YnFoV3g2

This was a very interesting book about clouds. You get to learn about the 10 different clouds and their histories, as well as the "other" clouds. It is very informative and easy to understand. What I liked best was the touch of humor that it had. 4⭐️

#PopupReadathon @AmandaBlaze
#naturalitsy @AllDebooks
#BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

It's almost 8 a.m. here in California and I'm getting ready for the #PopupReadathon, hosted by @AmandaBlaze. My goal is to finish 2 out of the 3 books that I'm currently reading. 🤞

#Naturalitsy July #buddyread

Since starting this book, I have been paying more attention to the sky. I've spent many moments cloudspotting, although I remain a novice.

I like the poem by James Russell Lowell (p.89)

"Who knows whither the clouds have fled?
In the unscarred heaven, they leave no wake,
And the eyes forget the tears they have shed,
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. "

From The Vision of Sir Launfal.

It's that day of the week for a little focused rest and relaxation. Are you joining our communal read tonight? #Hyggehour is an hour set aside each week to unwind.

I'll be reading the #NaturaLitsy #buddyread (tagged), hopefully while outside cloudspotting.

What are your plans?

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88

Jumped on the #naturalitsy train again and this was a good one. Very interesting and well narrated (even though at times it felt as if he tried a bit too hard to be funny). I will definitely look at the sky more closely now. Clouds are fascinating. I might also re-read this with a pen and paper and not right before my bedtime as I fear I have already forgotten half of all the interesting facts.

@mandarchy found it! Circa 2013.

#Naturalitsy

I hope you're enjoying our #buddyread this month.

This shot is breathtaking. One of my favourite landscape photographers is Kilian Schoenberger. Check out his Insta

https://www.instagram.com/kilianschoenberger?igsh=MXNrZzJ1NGxveTR5YQ==

#Naturalitsy July #buddyread
_ Next up - The cloudspotters guide by Gavin
Pretor-Pinney
This does look fascinating and so informative.
All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/about-us/

#Naturalitsy July #buddyread

📖 Next up - The cloudspotters guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

This does look fascinating and so informative.
All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/about-us/

@LitsyEvents

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 148
#BooksToRead #TBRPile #TBRMountain

#clouds #windsofmarch @Eggs

Well, that was easy.

Book club book (with my high school (& some elementary school!) friends) showed up today. ⛅️ Delivery was supposed to be delayed for quite awhile. I‘m pleasantly surprised to have received it earlier than expected!

I‘d love to see it though I don‘t think I‘d ever be brave enough to surf the amazing Morning Glory cloud in Australia.

The science, history and culture of clouds with lots of pictures/illustrations crossed off two squares on #nonfiction2019 bingo!

Common shape for altocumulus clouds. No wonder there are so many UFO sightings!

When you were little did you look for fantastical shapes in clouds? A number of artists liked to hide figures in their paintings of clouds. Love this one of a man on a horse in cloud behind St. Sebastian.

Did you know that a cloud harp exists? This instrument creates music from the shape of clouds above it. When the sky is blue, the harp is silent. When clouds appear above it, the music begins via a laser beam directed at the clouds. Whatever bounces back is measured. A musician, known as a “cloudist”, configures the harp so that this info triggers musical sounds. The cloud harp has been installed in various settings for enjoyment of cloudwatchers.

Did you know cumulonimbus clouds are considerably taller than Mount Everest and the energy contained in one has been estimated to be the equivalent of ten Hiroshima-sized bombs? Or that a pilot in the US Marine Corps is the only human to have fallen through an entire storming cumulonimbus cloud in a parachute after ejecting from his plane that died at 48,000 ft (just above the cloud) AND he lived to tell the tale?

Did you know that cumulus clouds weigh an average of about 220 tons? Or that they are considered the spiritual cousins of elephants in Hinduism? The Sanskrit creation myths describe how elephants created at beginning of time were white, had wings to fly, could change their shape at will and had the power to bring rain.

Love this book!

Loving this book about clouds. Here is “The Manifesto” of The Cloud Appreciation Society.

I‘m 10 books from finishing the 2018 Read Harder Challenge and I‘m determined to finish...even if I‘m several months into 2019 by the time I do. Gotta printout the 2019 challenge as well. This is really the best way for me to discover books I‘ve never heard of or would probably not have picked up. Just reserved this one from the library as I‘ve always been fascinated by clouds!

I am SO stoked about this one. Clouds fascinate me and I snap pics of them all the time. 😁

This book is fun-tastic! Go watch some clouds friends (I found one that looks like the UK).