Cloud journal

Backyard

Backyard

Backyard

Driving to the airport saw this shark with flag cloud

Mountain drawn cumulus behind Honolulu

Firework clouds over the Pacific

As this peripatetic life goes, so goes the cloud journal.  One remarkable thing I've noticed in Honolulu is that there are two distinct cloud environments here.  One exists for the mountains and one for the Pacific Ocean.  The mountains draw darker stratus and pile up the cumulus, while the ocean sketches with cirrus.

Cloud journal

Madrid airport

Edge of Madrid with view of foothills

Edge of Madrid

Hiking in the foothills to the sound of a cuckoo bird

Back home in the backyard

Backyard

"Normal" journaling too often leaves me at a loss.  The impulse to mark something daily, however, remains.  This is especially true right now when I'm traveling so much, so far, and in such a short space of time (Japan, New England, Spain, Hawaii, Korea--all in a two month period.  There's just too much new to process right now.). I found I wanted a daily marker that I didn't have to interpret or read into.  Rather than turn my attention to myself, I've started a daily cloud journal as a way to pay attention to where I am, and the sky's state of being in that place at that time.  This is the first week starting with the airport in Madrid and ending in the backyard at home.  I'm no photographer.  Most of these are shot with my phone.  The idea is just to have a moment each day when I pay attention to the sky.