"Was there a featured image for September?" I hear you ask. Well, yes, but as I completely failed to blog about it, you may have missed it. Here. Now here we are already in October and a new "featured image" is up!
 

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From time to time we are witness to strange or unusual phenomena - those fleeting and elusive events that defy explanation. When this happens our minds tend to look for patterns, connections and causality. We ask "what does this mean?", or "why did that happen"? As if nature owed us an explanation.

Here, ridge-top clouds parted for a a split-second to reveal a sunlit hillside that almost jumped out of the shadowed landscape, topped by a miraculous single glowing cloud. In the foreground, the cloud is mirrored in miniature by a small scrap of discarded paper.

The symbolism doesn't have to be meaningful - it's enough that it's mysterious. We impose our own meaning. With hindsight, some might connect these phenomena with subsequent events and see the moment as one of mystical foreshadowing.  Actually of course, this "meaning" may just be the unconscious mind trying to tell conscious one that it's doing something really stupid that will have (as yet) unforeseen consequences.

Either way, you can make up your own mind. A simple natural phenomenon, or a warning sign...?