After a few glorious days of sun and heat, it’s cooled right down again here as we head into Monsoon June. Rain, dipping temperatures, and really cool skies (check out those clouds!) are typical of this time of year. After a few weeks of this unpredictable weather, we head into forest fire season.
Last summer the fires were awful… thick smoke day after day and everyone on edge wondering if the flames were going to sweep through and engulf inhabited areas. Fort McMurray. Kelowna. The memories are still fresh.
Forest Fire, by Mark Tobey, 1956
This year’s fire season is still in the future. For now, I’m going to enjoy the beauty of clouds…
Puffy clouds over the Baths, BVI
Clouds over Canmore
Clouds over Ha Ling
Reflected Clouds – Policeman’s Creek, Canmore
Caribbean Clouds
Spanish Clouds over the Camino
More Spanish Clouds (Dawn)
More Clouds over Ha Ling
Apparently, I have a thing for clouds… I found dozens and dozens of photos of clouds from pretty much everywhere I’ve been over the past dozen years.
Artists, too, find clouds irresistible.
Cloud Study, E. Colin Williams (watercolour)
Dad has done his share of cloud-centric paintings.
Sky Above Clouds III by Georgia O’Keeffe, 1963
As have many, many other painters…
Birds in the Clouds by Georges Braque, 1960
Seascape Study with Rain Clouds by John Constable, 1827
Which makes me think I need to join this cloudy party and start experimenting with some cloud-themed drawings/paintings/collages… Something. Heaven knows I have plenty of raw material to work with around here!
Scents and memories… so strongly linked at times one could believe therein lies the secret of the time machine. The scent of lilacs evokes memories of my mother, who loved lilac bushes, perhaps because when she was born, a celebratory lilac bush was planted outside her grandmother’s house.
…a cuppa decaf latte love…
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