Monday, April 17, 2006

Breathtaking

I pass by this spot every morning and can't help but stop to admire the wonderful view of the sky even though I'm late. I don't know what it is about this spot but it seems that God has chosen this specific part of the enormous sky as his canvas to paint on.
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Anonymous said...

The pictures of clouds reminded me of a poem written by a child. Kids usually look to the sky when they're daydreaming. Do you still do that? :-)
For sharing the beautiful pictures, I offer you

CASTLES IN THE CLOUDS
All you need to build
Castles in the sky
Are fluffy white clouds
And a fanciful eye.
You can build rooms,
Add a tower too,
Add doors and windows
By ones and by twos.
Now imagine the tower
With a princess inside
All you really need is
A fanciful eye.

4/19/2006 11:44 am
nephos said...

Used to daydream a lot as a child. Seldom do it nowadays becoz of the typical pressures of being an adult but yes... I do look up at the sky when I remember.
Thanks for the beautiful poem. Do leave your name if you wouldn't mind so that I know who its from.

4/19/2006 12:49 pm
Anonymous said...

just a kid that never wanna grow up

4/19/2006 1:02 pm
Anonymous said...

"Every cloud is made up of moisture. On a day bright sunny day a single fluffy cloud contains about 550 tons of water. Your average elephant weighs about six tons, so that means that those happy spring clouds are equivalent to around 100 elephants.

A bigger storm cloud, is more like 200,000 elephants in terms of weight. That's quite a jump, and it's kind of humbling, funny, and awesome to think of 200,000 elephants stampeding across the sky.

No such emotions attach to the numbers associated with a hurricane, however. Instead of awe or humor, now we're talking absolute terror. Instead of 100 elephants, or even 200,000 elephants, the water in a hurricane is equivalent to 40,000,000 - yes, forty million - elephants. Forty million elephants in the sky, bringing destruction and fear. Forty million elephants.

Next time you look at a cloud, think about how many elephants are in it. You had no idea that a cloud was so massive, and no idea that a creature so huge and seemingly earth-bound can be used to understand something so apparently light and ephemeral, did you?"

4/19/2006 2:07 pm

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