Elin's Journal

Interesting about the sense of "big sky". In my time in Texas, Oklahoma, and Florida, I found the sky to be almost claustrophobic, due to the flat land and true horizon being hidden by local terrain. The effect was to remove any sense of scale to the sky. Living in western Washington State, the mountain ranges provided landmarks for size and distance, so you could definitively tell if the dramatic poof of cloud was a local event 3 miles away or the harvenger of a massive front 100 miles or more away.