How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind! The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air. It sees the crystals of the rock in rapid sympathetic motion, giving enthusiastic obedience to the sun's rays, then sinking back to rest in the night. The whole world is in motion to the center. So also sounds. We hear only woodpeckers and squirrels and the rush of turbulent streams. But imagination gives us the sweet music of tiniest insect wings, enables us to hear, all round the world, the vibration of every needle, the waving of every bole and branch, the sound of stars in circulation like particles in the blood. The Sierra canyons are full of avalanche debris -- we hear them boom again, for we read past sounds from present conditions. Again we hear the earthquake rock-falls. Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarser senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

"Wave clouds" Kelvin Helmholtz clouds

A collection of Kelvin Helmholtz clouds AKA Wave clouds and other rare and unusual cloud anomalies and phenomenons

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Wave clouds at Snowbasin

"Notice the small things, the rewards are inversely proportional." Liz Vassey-

"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed." -Joseph Addison

These clouds often form on windy days faster wind on top of the wave versus the bottomwind shear when theres a difference in densities of the air for example during a temperature inversion. Theyre often good indicators of atmospheric instability and the presence of turbulence for aircraft. A perfect illustration that the air is a fluid just like water. wave clouds Kelvin Helmholtz instability