July 2020

Digital painting of some sun rays shining through dark grey clouds.

December 2nd

We report: there is some light dripping down from over the clouds, moving along the places where they open up. Today, the weather has been ever-changing, and this is a lull in between showers. The wind is picking up again, and we wonder how long we have until it starts raining.

Digital painting of a dark grey sky at night, with the silhouettes of some buildings at the bottom of the frame, two windows lit white and yellow.

December 1st

We report a humid night in the city. The sky is catching all the lights and has remained a strange mix of grey and purple since the sunset. There is a light drizzle going on. It is time to go home and get some rest.

Digital painting of some lenticularis (long, lens-shaped, stacked on top of one another) clouds in a blue sky.

December 4th

We report lenticularis over the mountains. Stationary clouds remind us of ships on a windless sea; we keep expecting them to float along elsewhere, but they are tethered to this specific part of the sky, and now so are we as we watch them.

Digital painting of a blue sky over the sea with different types of clouds. Some are lit by the Sun and stick to the horizon, some are bigger and darker and higher up in the sky.

December 3rd

We report: "lonely as a cloud", he said, but these days we notice how the wind brings clouds together, how they embrace one another and somehow become one. There was a storm coming or leaving today; the clouds kept rising and blooming in a beautiful way.

Digital painting of a dawn sky, light grey with a band of bright pink at the horizon. There are a few black birds flying across the frame.

December 5th

We report: it is morning now, and the morning is so harsh at times. We used to feel so sad at dawn, perhaps in a contradictory sort of emotion; things ending and beginning, and the melancholia that comes with those. These days, it gets easier to deal with the passage of time.

Digital painting of a windy field with a few bare trees on the horizon, bent from the breeze. The sky is very cloudy and quite dark, with a small opening between the clouds.

December 7th

We report, today, it is windy-windy; our words get swallowed back as soon as we speak them, and it is almost hard to breathe when we face the wind. Some trees have lost their last leaves, and our expert is holding on to their hat.

Digital painting of a starry early night sky with a thin moon crescent low on the horizon.

December 6th

We report: it had been raining hard all day, the sky low and opaque. The air remained humid throughout the late afternoon but at some point, the clouds cleared out. It was already dark, and the moon rose among the stars.

Digital painting of a bright blue sky with a few tiny horizontal white clouds in the lower half of the frame.

December 11th

We report an exceptionally bright sky for this December day. The quiet flock of altocumulus in the pale blue made us think that today was never going to end - and even when it ended, we felt like some of the blue might have rubbed off on us, etched there to last the winter.

Digital painting of a cirrus sky with the Sun low on the horizon, right at the centre, half-obscured by the clouds.

December 8th

We report: it is true that it is cold today, and it is also true that we embrace things differently in the cold. We bought our first oranges of the season and we looked at the Sun through one of the slices. The acidity of the oranges cut through the frozen air, bold and bright.

Digital painting of a storm cloud expanding into a blue sky. There are different layers and levels to this cloud that is blooming as though against a ceiling.

December 9th

We report a storm system with capillatus that is still expanding over us; we keep trying to tilt our heads to see how it would look upside down. We get the impression of some waves crashing down in an excruciatingly slow movement.

Digital painting of a dusk sky with dark orange, almost black in some spots, clouds.

December 21st

We report: it is the first day of astronomical Winter. When we woke up this morning, the bedroom was cold, and some puddles outside were frozen. Winter has already been there for a little while, but we are imagining that we can find a different smell in the air today.

Digital painting of a green aurora in a starry night sky.

December 10th

We report: auroras are silent phenomenons, but we always hear some sort of a symphony rise up inside of us when we watch them. We are thinking about the solar wind, and all these things moving around us that we usually cannot see.

Digital painting of a sunrise sky in dark orange and purple tones. It is a cloudy sky with an opening in it, from which yellow light pours out.

December 12th

We report: this is like a very small portion of the sky in which we are seeing the Sun rise. It is otherwise raining, which is also a nice thing in itself, but the colours there are making it seem like it is much warmer than it actually is.

Digital painting of a grey sky over some mountains with snowy summits; the mountains are partly obscured by some low clouds.

December 13th

We report: it is our understanding that the sky was too full of clouds, to the extent that it had to drop a few of them over the mountains. We, down there, have been experiencing all manners of spillovers; fog, rain, hail, and snow, to name a few.

Digital painting of a dark blue cloudy dusk sky. There is a power line running across the frame, and a black bird flying as well.

December 14th

We report that we are diving right into the night ocean - minute after minute, we go deeper and the sky grows darker. It is still early, but that is relative during the days leading up to the winter solstice. We think that we have been losing hours to the night.

Digital painting of some miscellaneous white clouds in a blue sky over a roof.

December 15th

We report: we interrupt the course of your day or night to present this specific sky, at this specific time. What you will make of it is between you and yourself, and we profoundly respect that notion. With the hope that this interlude will have been a positive one, goodbye.

Digital painting of a cloudy and rainy sky over the dark sea, with some light hitting a very specific spot on the surface, and some blue sky barely coming through.

December 16th

We report that we come to the sea for the salt, we think. It is not all there is to it, but there is something about what it smells like, what it tastes like, and even what it feels like. It feels a little bit like having cried for a long time when we come back home.

Digital painting of a rosy sunset with cirrus fibratus (long, thin, hair-like clouds) in a dark blue sky.

December 17th

We report: we have barely seen the Sun lately. It seems that it will simply not rise very high over roofs and treetops, and so we stay in the shadows for most of our days. The solstice is just a few days away.

Digital painting of a blue sky covered in contrails criss-crossing one another.

December 18th

We report that there is some weaving happening in the sky at the moment; it is hard to tell which thread came first, over and under which. The fabric it has formed seems flimsy at best, and the wind surely will scatter it all before long.

Digital painting of the full Moon, partly covered by, and illuminating clouds.

December 19th

We report: it is a cold night and the clouds keep passing over the Moon. Every few minutes, we start shivering and wondering whether it is truly worth it to stay out there, and then the clouds part and we get a glimpse of her. It is worth it, it seems.

Digital painting of a stormy, dark grey sky with black birds flying across the frame.

December 20th

We report, today, there it was again, a storm. We live in intermissions sometimes, counting the days between storms like we keep waiting for them. This one filled up the sky like a drop of ink in a glass of water, fast and easy.

Digital painting of a lake surrounded by snow, with a partly cloudy sky above. There is a line of trees on the horizon.

December 22nd

We report that there was some snow through the night, and then probably some rain. Everything froze over during the coldest hours, but now it is already starting to melt under the noon Sun. We would know more about what happened if our expert hadn't slept on the job.

Digital painting of a foggy sky over a city skyline, with the sunrise clearly visible in the top half of the frame.

December 23rd

We report: the fog stayed particularly low this morning, hovering over the sea and the harbour but never coming up high enough to reach the city. From the heights we stood on, we watched the clouds slowly get taken away by the wind.

Digital painting of a partly cloudy sky, bright blue behind the clouds in question.

December 24th

We report that the sky was more of everything today. So tall, deep, and blue; the wind was getting our eyes teary and the Sun was bright as can be at the beginning of winter. The clouds were passing by at the same speed we were walking, and we stayed in their company for a while.

Digital painting of a cloudy evening sky that is going through a gradient of dark blues.

December 25th

We report: oftentimes we keep track of the nightfall through quick glances at the window. The sky changes just fast enough that we can almost notice it turning bluer by the second, and the low light starts making us a little bit sleepy even though the afternoon is not over yet.

Digital painting of a grey sky over a landscape of hills, with a narrow path and a house in the foreground.

December 26th

We report that, sometimes, we walk the hills thinking about "billions of years ago, what was the landscape here?". This is not a question meant for an answer, we just think a lot more on days like these. Everything is grey and humid, and the sky is still. So our mind races.

Digital painting of some towering orange clouds at sunset, with a small flock of birds in the distance.

December 27th

We report: there is something to the way birds are always going away in the cold, though we know that is not something to feel emotional about. They look very small up there in the sky, and we know they are leaving, and we wonder whether they will come back. We hope so.

Digital painting of some white altocumulus undulatus (long, narrow clouds, arranged in rows) in a blue sky.

July 28th

We report that this cloud has frozen mid-air - not today, rain! We keep a watchful eye in case it tries to pull a fast one on us.

Digital painting of a starry night sky, lightly veiled by clouds in the lower half. There is also a line of leafless trees at the horizon.

December 29th

We report: however counterintuitive that may be, stargazing really is generally a better experience in the winter. The cold dry air is not as hazy as it gets in the summer. It is also our biased view that the best constellations come out during the winter months.

Digital painting of a murky, frothy sea over which heavy, dark clouds hang in a late afternoon lighting. Some seagulls are flying over the sea.

December 30th

We report the waves that crashed on the shore as we walked along the seaside today. There were many, strong enough to push and pull the biggest pebbles. The seafoam that climbed high on the beach was dense, and the sea birds kept poking around it for food.

Digital painting of a clear, pink sky, with a Moon crescent on the left-hand side. The ground is covered in snow, tinted blue in the dusk light, and there are phone lines running through the frame along a path.

December 31st

We report: we have heard from our expert that the year is ending today, which is understandable; this does seem like a good point in time to finish up. We hope that our planet will do a nice spin around the sun during this next year as well.

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