Thunderhead
A storm cell in vase form: powder-blue cumulus billowing up the belly, stacked and backlit against deep navy, with the flared neck opening like the anvil top of a front about to break. The clouds drift as you turn it — building on one side, clearing on the other — and the rim keeps a speckled band of stratosphere. Inside, bare cream clay: the calm, apparently, is stored in the middle. Add stems if you like your storms decorated.
- Storm Stage
- Building nicely
- Severity
- Ornamental
- Lightning
- Withheld, for now
- Calm
- Kept inside, where it belongs
- Flowers
- Fly at their own risk
