Clouds and More Clouds and Clouds

A great sources of the delight is the enumeration as the various formations go by …

Cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, altostratus,

altocumulus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus,
cumulus, cumulonimbus, stratus: is there no end?

Paris Review
Streamers
by Arthur Sze
Issue no. 116 (Fall 1990)

No end to the clouds or to our classificatory drive or both?

And so for day 2917
07.12.2014

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