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Clouds, More Clouds

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Scott Abbott

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Clouds, A Celebration

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Scott Abbott

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Words about clouds are clouds themselves

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Scott Abbott

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It’s no secret that I have developed an obsession with clouds. It’s not a scientific obsession like the one Richard Hamblyn describes in his book about Luke Howard—the Quaker amateur meteorologist who gave us words to name and thus classify … Continue reading →

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Turkey Talk, Cursive Clouds

Posted on June 27, 2020 by Scott Abbott

Walking today around a familiar loop on the side of our mountain— about 10 kilometers with maybe 400 meters of altitude gain—I stepped off Summit Creek Road (there is neither summit nor a creek, just a developer’s scheme to sell … Continue reading →

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Cloud Syntax

Posted on June 19, 2020 by Scott Abbott

Die Obstdiebin / The Fruit Thief Novel by Peter Handke I’ve been reading this novel slowly, a few pages a day, hungry for the complex syntax and Handke’s phenomenological observations. Today I came to the sentence below, complex enough that … Continue reading →

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Clouds: Photos and 3:55 am Musings

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Scott Abbott

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Pages from Alex Caldiero’s notebook, 3:55 am, February 20, 2020 And to accompany his floating thoughts, depictions of my own:  

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skyplains

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Scott Abbott

This morning I finished (or have I just started?) reading Australian novelist Gerald Murnane’s The Plains. The book opens with these paragraphs: The unnamed filmmaker who is the novel’s narrator has in mind a film of the plains that will get … Continue reading →

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CLOUDS

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Scott Abbott

. . . he would not intervene with the weather on behalf of the clouds whose real purpose he sought to undermine for no other reason than his own vanity.    (Alex Caldiero, Clairefontaine) (from and answer, Alex Caldiero) (from Vomit questions on … Continue reading →

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Clouds

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Scott Abbott

My friend and colleague Jenna Nigro alerted me to the fact (reported in The New York Times Magazine, July 23, 2017) that Elvis Presley, while driving some associates through Arizona, saw the face of Joseph Stalin in a cloud. That … Continue reading →

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For Who Knows Where the Time Goes

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Scott Abbott

This thin cloud above a heavy mass of clouds that adds a final range to the mountains that alternate with basins across Utah and Nevada, tickled my fancy. Clouds have distinct forms, as Luke Howard knew when he named them … Continue reading →

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