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yellow and finally white. The rotating propeller of the plane registers
these same changing colors, The sun finally reaches the upper limite of
the lewer sea-hugging fracto-cumulus clouds. The higher ones first
appearing esiif being turned on by a switeh and finally the lower ones

are engulfed in that sea of cloulds that formerly gave the impression of
supporting a common heighth. This lightning of cloudea would suggest the
gradual awaking of the animal world or better the progressive appearance

of stars with the development of tweilight and darkness. As soon as the
sun's rays strike the water surface shadows spring into being, some un-
believable in quality and others quite normal but real. The usual re-
flection is one of deception. The shadow becomes a black bloteh upon the
bottom of a deep blue swimming pool with the clouds riding upon the surface |
of the water. This darker shadow has the power of bringing out the greenish
blue quality of the water and gives it that apparent factor of depth to

an otherwise opaque body. When the cloud shadow comes to rest upon the
glezen path of the direct sun reflection both the cloud and the shadow

take on their true perspective. The shadow rests on a black area upon the
water and the cloud assumes its normal relation with the water in regard to
height. The direct sun reflection suggests a hammered copper plate
reflected in the sun with its metalic luster. It differs only in the lack
of the color proper.

Except for the usual white dots the only other surface attraction is
the linear strands of yellow beads, presumably plant in nature and conform-
ing to the direction of the wave movement.

The ice-flow like arrangment of the fracto-cumulus now take on a
more definite alignment with parallel rows of clouds and suggesting at
times the formation of a ship convoy. This system of clouds will gradually
give way to the more complex fracto-cumulus cumulus type of cloud mixture
with the alto stratus or lenticuler formation binding the heterogeneous
forms together. Finally they become so amalgamatedsas to defy proper

description.