Under the April Skies

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Is it me, or is the spring sky astonishing right now? Call me a Fotherington Thomas but for the last few weeks I have found myself mesmerised, spending whole afternoons and evenings watching the clouds scud across the London horizon.

This is the thread, therefore, where you can share your photos of spring (or autumn, for the southern hem.) skies in your part of the world.

Hilly Fields, Brockley
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New Cross
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Kentish Town
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― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Schoolboy error, Nipper!

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― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think they are unusual, but I'm a big sky fan, so I'll not complain.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

O you are so blasé, N. Open your chilly Glasgow heart to the post-winterlividgrey cumulous splendour!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

so ponzé.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Hailstones wot hurt pelted down from my sky today.

― penelope_11, Monday, 19 April 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i think the nipper may well be in lurve.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

In love w/CLOUDS? Eww

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I have loads of beautiful sky/light photos from April (which here is Autumn), pity I don't have any uploaded.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm reminded right now of that Rickie Lee Jones sample in the Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds", especially at the end when she says "I used to look at them all the time when I was little. You don't see that. You might still see it in the desert."

OIf course you still see it in the desert, it's not going to change is it?!! Go out in the desert and have a look if you don't believe me you STUPID woman!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Get ready for Popmaster!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

It might have changed in the desert.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure when these were taken but the Dutch sky is huge and low.

http://www.geo.vu.nl/~oorg/photo2001/van-oord-2001-11.jpg
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― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The Nipper's photos remind me of Tracey Thorn's 'A Distant Shore' more than The Orb.

Got any baa-lambs or catkins, mate?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns,
Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous,
Eliciting the still sustaining pomps
Of speech which are like music so profound
They seem an exaltation without sound.
Funest philosophers and ponderers,
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
So speech of your processionals returns
In the casual evocations of your tread
Across the stale, mysterious seasons. These
Are the music of meet resignation; these
The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you
To magnify, if in that drifting waste
You are to be accompanied by more
Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.

('On the manner of addressing clouds' - Wallace Stevens)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.12move.nl/~sh762352/images/pretty%20baa%20lambs.jpg

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.missouriplants.com/Catkins/Alnus_serrulata_thumb.jpg

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Those catkins look suspiciously autumnal.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Luke Howard to thread, apropos of not a lot.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel that the Nipper has ripped off my schtick.

― the bluefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

the sky is always beautiful, except in those wreteched days of summer.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a great many pictures of skies -- more than you would readily believe -- but I don't think I am able to post them to this thread. In fact, I am fairly sure about that.

― the bluefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you could, with 4 minutes coaching.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

the sky in iceland was stunning when i was there. so vast and clear, and the sunrise/sets were unbelievable. i went click-happy taking pictures of silhouetted glaciers, people surrounded by blazing red-orange coronas, blah blah. unfortunately the crappy duty-free camera struck again, and i got back a bunch of gray, undifferentiated nonsense. the end.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

We are all looking at the sky, but some of us are frustrated by crappy equipment.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Rickie Lee Jones, Tracey Thorn and Wallace Stevens. AND I CAN'T BELIEVE THE SKY/IS IT USUALLY THAT HIGH?

This could turn out to be the greatest thread crystallisation ever.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Pack.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm planning to stare for 3 hours at one of these pictures while listening to Sigur Ros. Is that okay?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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