Looking Up

Recent weather in Minnesota--and we've had a lot of it lately--has us all watching the skies. And there's a book to help us make sense of it all: The Cloudspotter's Guide by the wonderfully named Gavin Pretor-pinney, explains the difference between cirrus and cummulonimbus and tells you when you can lie back and imagine bunnies and duckies floating overhead and when you need to run for cover.

For further information and a nifty embroidered patch, consider joining GP-P's Cloud Appreciation Society. "[W]e are fighting the banality of ‘blue-sky thinking’," says their website, cloudappreciationsociety.org.--David E