> in the middle/and distance is perfect. I don't think the clouds look quite
> realistic but then I find myself looking at the sky sometimes and thinking 
> the
> same thing, kind of if I had rendered that sky I wouldn't think it was 
> realistic
> so I am sure there have been clouds just like that somewhere..

You are right here. There are things like deep purple sunsets and pink 
sunrises or a sky-cloud combination on a somewhat rainy day in December that 
will illuminate a single tree like somebody trained a giant spotlight on it.

Today I looked at ground-fog in a small forest glade, the fog filling the 
glade completely and maybe three feet high, a soft breeze stirring the fog, 
sending white tendrils skyward. It looked like a scene straight out of a 
horror B-movie.

Nature can be unbelievably beautiful, in the truest sense of the word.

One of the most strange sights I ever saw was on a November morning more 
than a decade past. In the night it was pretty warm for the season and water 
evaporating from the lake must have created a ground fog. Then the 
temperature dropped really quickly below zero and all trees near the lake 
were covered in webs of glittering frost, while the ground (being able to 
hold the warmth longer) was completely void of snow. The beauty lasted only 
one half-hour...

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