The Cloud Appreciation Society

Yes I am a cloud fiend.
When I wake up and see some spectacular cumulous smiling down at me I know I am in for a good day. I tend to spend way to much time staring at clouds and it quite often results in embarrassing stumbles and/or people thinking I am insane. For a long time I thought the only person who sympathized with this infatuation for "lofty lofty clouds" was the fictional character Prince Andrey of "War and Peace", however, thankfully, I am not alone in my love for clouds. There is a great group on the internet called The Cloud Appreciation society that unites cloud lovers world wide. They have a plethora of fantastic photo's to explore, cloud inspired art, poetry and even their own manifesto which can be seen below:

• We believe that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.
• We think that they are Nature’s poetry,and the most egalitarian of her displays, since
  everyone can have a fantastic view of them.
• We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it.Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.
• We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the atmosphere’s moods, and can be read like those of a person’s countenance.
• Clouds are so commonplace that their beauty is often overlooked. They are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul. Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save on psychoanalysis bills.

And so we say to all who’ll listen:
Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and live life with your head in the clouds!"

Here a photo from The Cloud Apppreciation Society's site:

http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/