ABC Wednesday - Clouds

The fluffy cumulus clouds of June.  I'll start here because it is my favourite month, everything is newly green, the field flowers are in profusion, birds are in full song and bees are on the wing.  A time to celebrate.  A path has been cut through the long grass in the grounds of Eccles Rigg

and the groundsman has cultivated his art of mowing stripes. Cumulus humilis in the sky, clouds that are wider than they are tall.

The same June weekend but on top of the Coniston fells with streaks of cirrocumulus clouds which live at a higher altitude than the fluffy cumulus.

Early June, after a deluge, what were cumulonimbus clouds, the heart of every thunderstorm , we watched as the weather swirl around stopping by this cairn coming down from the Nine Standards (much more impressive cairns than this but I may save them for a N or an S week). The same day a walker was struck by lightning near here. Ay caramba

April showers on the River Kent as it flows through Kendal seemed benign by comparison.

Oh for a summer's day, changeable weather isn't it. No worries they are only gathering cumulus congestus , tops like cauliflowers, gathering over Coniston Water 

Winter, mid level altocumulous clouds, sometimes called cloudlets, by the coast the 'new' Hodbarrow lighthouse built in 1905, turned off in 1949, restored and relit in 2003, solar powered with a flashing white LED light visible for 12 miles.

Enough at looking up at the clouds lets look down at them. Inversion covering the Irish Sea as we stood on the top of  Black Combe looking out to the Isle of Man on a beautiful February day.

I am the daughter of earth and water,

And the nursling of the sky;

I pass through the pores of oceans and shores

I change, but cannot die:

(from The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley)

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