Cloudy Thursday
It’s Cloudy Thursday today – our theme for this week’s group post from LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color is all about clouds. You can find the list of bloggers who join in on LeeAnna’s I Like Thursday posts over at Not Afraid of Color. Our Thursday posts aren’t always about quilting, but often about other things we’ve enjoyed during the week, whether it’s our families, our pets, our books, or – clouds! I always learn a bit more about my blogging friends from their Thursday posts, so take some time to check out their blogs, too!
While driving one evening, we both noticed the clouds bringing us a lovely cold front. They were beautiful against the sunset.
Sorry about the messy windshield – it’s been a buggy summer!
If you are on Instagram, do you follow @adailycloud? It’s a fun feed by Chris Judge, featuring a cloud with a little touch of artistry. It’s a nice break in my feed, something there to make me remember to smile and enjoy the simple things of life.
Okay, so I guess this is a partly Cloudy Thursday post – haha. I have to take a little diversion. Apparently yesterday was National Buy a Book Day. Some of you may know that I’ve recently become serious friends with my local library, and I am not buying books. After getting rid of many of my books in order to expand my quilt room, I’ve chosen not to buy books because we no longer have room for so many. Well, I was at the library yesterday, and when I went to check out my books, I couldn’t scan one of them. I asked the librarian what to do and she said I could buy the book. Puzzled, I said, “but it was on the shelf?” She said she knew that, but I could buy it. Still puzzled, I went to ask how much the book was going to cost. That librarian looked at me with a twinkle in his eye and said, well . . . it’ll cost you . . . a quarter. Well, okay then.
My purchase for National Buy a Book Day. Pretty sure I’m going to like this one!
Getting back to clouds, in case you were wondering, that top photo is not from Minnesota. That is a late afternoon view from Cedar Keys, Florida, taken a few years ago when we were there visiting our daughter. She’s back in Minnesota, now, but we still enjoy those Florida memories. I took the photo not for the clouds, but for all the pelicans perching on that decrepit pier, but you can barely see them. However, the clouds add to the photo, don’t they? I particularly like the colors in the photo, all the gray, white and blues.
The Weekly Wilbs
Clouds, smouds – Wilbs could care less about clouds. He’s really all about the sun and naps. Oh, and snacks. In this photo, he had just had a few treats, so it was time to do a little washing up. He will admit, though, that he can nap just as easily on a cloudy day as a sunny one.
Well, I hope this cloudy Thursday post hasn’t bored you too much. Take some time today to look up and notice the clouds above you. I hope you all have a wonderful day!
Wendy
Storage Room Quilting
22 Comments
Cindy Pieters
Pretty cloud pictures! What a deal a quarter for a book, sit back relax and enjoy!
nanamickie
Great cloud photos. Wilbs does look very satisfied in that photo 🙂 Have a great day Wendy!
Nancy @ Grace and Peace Quilting
Great deal at the library!!! I had to go back to find the pelicans!
texasquiltgal
Your cloud photos are lovely! What a funny story about your book purchase. We both donated books before our last move (books take up a lot of boxes!), and now we read on our iPad with the Kindle app. Our dream was always to have a library, with walls of books that we would use one of those neat ladders to reach. We attended a luncheon one day in a ritzy part of Houston where such a library was part of the house, and the hostess graciously let us roam it for awhile.Now we have a tiny bookshelf with our old favorites. No ladder necessary. 😉
Vicki in MN
That’s a bit like stop and smell the roses isn’t it. Lucky you getting a book for a quarter.
Tracie
Clouds – I think Brian follows that Instagram account. We’ve had two gorgeous sunsets with the sun lighting up the clouds with an orange glow. Your book reminded me that I haven’t read that series yet! It’ll be a good one for the winter. Enjoy reading!
Karen
I used to have tons and tons of books on shelves and some years ago I just started to donate boxes of them – they collect so much dust the books were standing 2 deep in the shelves with books tucked in ever corner available to them. By then I got my first kindle and it was so easy to have them on the kindle instead – I have since gotten a fire and they transferred to that. So I have my thousands of books stored on amazon and on my kindle and less and less to dust on the shelves.
Nanette Chopin Cook
I have tons of books and lucky to have a room that we call the ‘Library’. I gave a lot of them to the Library and cleaned out my quilting books and gave them to the local library. A $.25 book is a great day! I never throw books away, as I remember how books were burned by Hitler. All books remain precious to me, even those I have not yet read! Have a great Thursday! Hugs
Patricia Clancy
This was a great post! Made me smile as many of us just don’t take the time to see around us. Thank you.
Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
The heat wave we’ve been experiencing here in the west is forecast to start cooling (finally), so I will definitely have my eyes to the sky hoping for clouds (and rain). Some of my favorite clouds are the lenticulars that we will occasionally see here in our valley.
LA Paylor
wilburrrrrrr! more cats! Beautiful cloud photo, in the 2nd one I see two guinea pigs from Sally chasing each other! Love the composition and soft colors in the first one. Inspiration for a quilt?
Diane F Harris
Liking the clouds and the book looks good too!!!
Rochelle Summers
Wonderful inspiration post. Clouds appeared here for several days even in the middle of the heat wave and brought a couple of gorgeous sunsets…but trapped the heat in all night. I’ve started the William Kreuger series but am taking it sew…savoring it. I’ve been using the library a lot. I listen to audio books while I sew and read some Kindle books but prefer “real” books. Enjoy your new finds. And Wilbs looks comfortable sitting on the sewing machine.
Diann@ Little Penguin Quilts
I love your book story! I love the library, too, and use it all the time. Still too many books around here, though – I should go on a book purge, too. Your cloud photos are great! I always love anything seen along a coastal area, but the long distance views of the plains are beautiful, too.
Vicki Welsh
My library has a section of used books to buy. The Friends of the Library group collects and sells them. I always check them out for a bargain and then donate them back when I’m done. Our hardbacks are a dollar so you got a real bargain!
Helen
Good reminder… take a minute to look up and notice.
marissthequilter
It happens to be a cloudy Friday in this part of the world. Thanks for the lovely photographs.
Kathleen McCormick
Love the cloud pictures. I love keeping an eye on the changing sky. Too funny about the 25 cent book at the library….maybe you can donate it back for them to make another 25 cents! Love Wilbs, but I wonder about how much sewing you get done if he has decided your machine is a perch?
Jocelyn Thurston
I would not have guessed that photo was Florida…I looked to try to see the pelicans. 🙂 But I also love the grey with peachy colours in your cloud photos. Libraries have been my favourite places all my life and always owned more books than I should have. My favourite of Williams is the one called Ordinary Grace, I think that’s the title. There are always books at the thrift stores that tempt me too. Wilbs is such a clever well rounded fellow!
Preeti Harris
A cloudy post filled me with sunshine!
Cocoa Quilts
Wendy I always enjoy your outdoor pictures, clouds or no clouds. That midwest landscape is one of the things I miss, they just aren’t the same here in the south.
The Morning Latte
Nice snag at the library! As hot and dry as it has been the last couple months, I notice every little snippet of cloud in the sky and look at it longingly, hoping it’s a sign of much much more to come! (So far, this exercise has been fruitless, btw!)