Daydream Nation

Scroll written in gold ink on dark blue paper. Japan, Heian Period, 9th century AD [2018x1179]

Medium: oil,canvas

Alignments: ∎ Lawful Good  ∎ Neutral good  ∎ Chaotic good  ∎ Lawful neutral  ∎ Absolute neutrality  ∎ Chaos neutrality  ∎ Lawful evil  ∎ Neutral evil ∎ Chaotic evil

a full load of moonlight.

Mononoke forest, Yakushima island by Casey Yee

Nachi Falls - Japan (by Modes Rodríguez)

Canada by Edward Koorey

Tetrahedral Planetoid, 1954, M.C. Escher

Banff Scene by bob

屋久島２ by Yuta Crush

Concept art by Hayao Miyazaki for Mononoke Hime (Studio Ghibli 1997).

Chinese saying: “The purest lotus grows from the mud”, by Yeachin Tsai.

Zhiyong Jing

Maple leaves, by Ito Sozan (1925).

Even when the sky is mostly blue, there’s a lot going on at different altitudes. The winds do not move in a consistent direction or at the same speed, something which becomes apparent when watching clouds move relative to one another. When different layers of air move past one another, there is shear between them, not unlike the friction you feel when running your hand along a table. Under the right circumstances, this shear creates Kelvin-Helmholtz waves like the ones in this image over Helena Valley, Montana. Fast-moving winds (blowing right to left in the image) above a layer of clouds created these breaking wave-like curls. The same phenomenon creates many of the ocean’s waves from the shear caused by wind blowing across water. (Image credit: H. Martin, via EPOD)