Heroes Not Zombies

I took this photo in May back in 2015 and it still captures my attention every time I glance at it. Isn’t this one of the weirdest cloud patterns you’ve ever seen? It’s a complete mystery to me. And we humans love mysteries.

It’s the fact that it seems to be five fairly similar clouds in a line that makes me see them as one connected event. We humans are meaning seeking creatures. I can’t help but try to come up with an “explanation” for these clouds.

The power of imagination kicks in and I wonder if they are natural – were they created by humans? Are they are series of puffs from a chimney? But what kind of fire would produce five separate puffs of smoke in a row like this? A sputtering aircraft? Nope, I don’t think so.

So are they letters of some mysterious alphabet? Is this a message written in the sky? Is it a word? If it were a word, what might that word be? Is it God, or a god, or Gaia writing a warning message? Or a greeting? “Hello world”??

I’ve tried all sorts of ideas over the years but never one that satisfies me. And, no, saying it’s just random doesn’t work for me either. A random shape I can understand, a series of connected random shapes? This doesn’t look random to me.

So, how about you? What pops into your head when you look at this image?

Here’s my latest – it’s the Loch Ness Monster going on her summer holidays to the South of France!