CLOUD GAZING IS FREE … A PHOTO POST FOR B.C.

A couple of days ago my friend Becky posted a magnetic poem about cloud gazing. After reading it, I remembered a group of cloud photos I had taken about two weeks ago. I had quite a few birthdays coming up in August and September, so I decided to take a trip to my Target Store and replenish my card stock.

When I left the house the skies were bright blue with a few puff pillow clouds. And I jumped on the MetroBus going south for a quick ride. As we were going around Forest Park, I noticed the skies were getting cloudy. By the time I got off the bus, the skies looked like this …

The clouds actually looked liked they were pockmarked!

In my entire life I had never seen clouds that looked liked these.

They looked so ominous, I picked up my pace across the Target parking lot and rushed to the door.

And I just made it to the door of the store when raindrops began to splat the ground. And they were like the mother of all raindrops! Either that or someone was throwing water balloons down on us.

On the News Live At Five I discovered that my strange clouds were mamatus  or “breast” clouds that formed under a layer of cumulonimbus thunderclouds which often indicates severe storms and tornadoes. The shower was rather brief and by the time I came out of the store the skies were blue again and the ground was almost dry.

Since the clouds looked like they had been lifted from some old master’s painting, I knew I just had to share them with Becky.  Enjoy, cloud gazing is free!