As we were driving along while out and about today, I noticed cloud formations that were in lines, long lines and thought how unusual this was. I mentioned it to my man Paul but as he was driving he could not really see what I was talking about.
But, you can see that I have him well trained regarding my taking photos for this Project 365, because he told me there was a layby coming up and if he parked the car there, then I could take some photos of this unusual cloud formation!! 
This is the first of the photos I took. I tried to get the view as far as the cloud “lines” went in the sky.
Original photograph taken by me today 19 April 2011 - copyright 2011
Paul said that maybe the lines were vapour trails from planes, but as the view as we drove along had a great expanse of sky to look at, there had not been any planes flying about anywhere in the sky during our car journey. I had noticed these lines a fair way back at the start of our journey, so they had not changed, nor moved during our half an hour or more drive.
I tried to get part of the lines closer up.
Original photograph taken by me today 19 April 2011 - copyright 2011
In the above photo there appears to be three “lines” of cloud and I think the one in the middle has a very interesting almost regular pattern to it.
Here’s another photograph I took of the sky with these lines.
Original photograph taken by me today 19 April 2011 - copyright 2011
This photo shows the lines at the other end and here you can see there are four lines of cloud formation.
Original photograph taken by me today 19 April 2011 - copyright 2011
I found these lines quite fascinating, which is probably why I took so many photos of them! 
But the interesting thing for me is that two to three hours earlier, when I was letting our doggie Pippin into our garden at home, I also saw a cloud formation of lines in the sky then!! It’s almost as if this is the same clouds I saw but they haven’t changed or moved.
We have lived in this area for many years and do see planes flying about and we see also when they leave their vapour trails. Those trails usually disappear fairly quickly, but they are also usually much thinner than the lines I saw in the sky today. Again for those above our garden this morning, there were no planes flying about. Even if we did not see any, we can hear them, but there was no plane sound today.
Last pic, another attempt at trying to get the complete length of them in the photo, so more of a distance shot this time.
Original photograph taken by me today 19 April 2011 - copyright 2011
What I did not notice before I looked at these pics, because I was too busy looking at the lines of cloud going across the sky, was that there is also a line of cloud going the other way!!
It’s normal to see all sorts of different cloud formations but these lines seemed so completely different to me. The fact that they stayed there, and did not change, even just a little, or move just seems odd to me. I would be interested to know what others think of this.
