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Eagle Clouds in Mountain View Photographs: Showers Drive Saturday, August 28, 2010 By Peter Y. Chou WisdomPortal.com |
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Preface: On Saturday, August 28, 2010, while coming home from Los Altos Library,
I saw a group of puffy white clouds shaped like a mushroom emerging from a cloud mass
at the corner of Showers Drive and Latham Street in Mountain View. I rushed home and
got my Canon PowerShot A590IS Camera but the mushroom cloud was gone. However the cottonball
clouds (altocumulus)
looked beautiful so I snapped a few pictures. Then I noticed an
eagle shaped cloud soaring out, and took several more photos. Since it was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's
261st birthday (August 28, 1749), these pictures are delicated to him. When the Duke of Weimar
complained the poor weather forecasts, Goethe said he can tell from cloud types. Soon Goethe
was appointed to head the Meteorology Department in addition to the Drama Department as
well as the Bureau of Mines. Because of Goethe's multi-facet talents, I have looked up to him
as my spiritual mentor since 1960.
(Cottonball Sky,
Goethe's Harz Mountain poem,
Goethe: Earth Inhaling & Exhaling)
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 Cottonball Clouds |
 Faces in Cottonball Clouds |
 Eagle-shaped Cloud (pointed beak) |
 Eagle-shaped Cloud (growing neck) |
 Eagle-shaped Cloud (large head & beak) |
 Dark Dragon in White Cloud |
 L-shaped Clouds or Boot Kicking |
 Setting Sun Behind Clouds |
 Sweeping Clouds with Wolf Head |
(Photographed on August 28, 2010, 6:05-6:17 pm)
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