We report under the fastest clouds that we have seen in some time: it is a dry morning, which we are thankful for given this wild wind. It feels quite pleasant when we step outside, even though our hair is very much in our face. Flashes of pink light catch us through the clouds.
We report: these long days keep on getting longer, and the sun lingers at the door while the clouds bruise purple and pink. The moon struggles to find room in the interlude, but we feel exactly in the right place in this instant, our shoulders damp with evening drizzle.
We report a little late in the day: every time we look at the sky, the wind shear is taking it to different places, and simultaneously too. As a result of these contradictory movements, we see a display of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, rolling waves crowning the clouds.
We report from our front door: we had not expected the sun to be quite so shy on the first day of meteorological summer. The clouds are sweeping the sky at a great pace, and the gale raises a few shivers in us. We dare say it is a little bit cold even when the sun comes out.
We report: in the small hours of the morning, we caught a few fairies dancing far above the storm. They immediately hid from view again, obviously self-conscious of our noticing them. Our expert whispered about transient luminous events, as though afraid of spooking them away.
We report: over the mountains, the clouds march forever, snagging on the tops, filing them down with the use of rain and time. It is the oldest story that clouds can tell, and it has not ended yet. We do our part by retracing the steps that others have walked before us.
We report: we are headed for a dark, cloudy night under the new moon. The birds are slowly quieting, and the wind is dying down to a whisper. The humidity that has built over the past few days has our head retreating between our shoulders. We get startled by a passing train.
We report: it is windy like it has not been in a long while, and now that all the trees are full of leaves, their rustling sounds like a clamour. The wind shear is streaking through the clouds in a confusing pattern, and the sunshine wavers with the movement of the branches.
We report as we are waking up for the third time this morning: there is a couple of magpies loudly bickering in a tree nearby, in the manner that befits them. The cackling and the strange whirring sounds have been piercing through our dreams every time we fall back asleep.
We report: while the sun was setting, we watched as lights blinked on in the distance. We and everyone else trying to prolong the day, stretch it a little further, though the light was gone. We tried to hold off on our own lights til our eyes stung from squinting in the dark.
We report while the evening is beginning to burn the afternoon light away: there is unshed rain in the shadows of the sky, and there are motes of dust taking all the sunshine for themselves. It is one of those decisive moments of the day when everything shifts so much faster.
We report: after many tribulations, we are confident that this is planet Earth - what with the sky, the grass, the bearable temperature, and the breathable air. We feel smaller than ever before under these billowing columns of steam. Our expert did not miss their pollen allergy.
We report as the sun rises from a below freezing night: we are certain that we found the right solar system, but we are not so sure about the planet. The sun is tiny and cold, and the sky is strange and empty. Our expert is taking a close look at the dust that covers everything.
We report: we got very, very lost at some point tonight. We took a couple of wrong rights, and certainly could have used a map or two along the way. We now find ourselves very far from home; we shall hope for our own safe return. We only need to find the correct north star.
