His birthday was at the end of September and the sky was cloudless.
For the first time I craved a crinoline: my legs were chilly in shorts, and though the sky was cloudless, the rising sun would take time to warm my path.
The summer sun was at its zenith in a cloudless sky when Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Saint-Exupéryforce reconnaissance plane tumbled into the Mediterranean in July 1944, killing the author of The Little Prince, and creating a necessary hero in a country humbled by defeat and collaboration.
Partly, it must be said, because there's no one else present at the open-air platform on a brilliantly cloudless February afternoon in southernmost Sweden.
Though copycat software rose up afterwards, downloading music never again felt cloudless.
But the actual record, 4.17m square km in 2007, was the product of an unusual combination of sunny days, cloudless skies and warm currents flowing up from mid-latitudes.
On a cloudless autumnal day, just ahead of the November 4th election, Americans of all political stripes can be found bringing friends, grey-haired parents and children to Congress.Keeping faith with the Founding FathersThe premise of American democracy is a great one; it has "just lost its way", says Jerry Dempsey, one of a group from Omaha, Nebraska.
A clear sky brings to mind that cloudless morning in 2001.
A LOVELY morning in New York still brings to mind the cloudless sky on the day aeroplanes crashed into the World Trade Centre.
Under cloudless skies, the surface gives up its moisture, making the ground level hotter and drier while not increasing the chances of rain.
But late one evening, after the captain has lingered at dinner telling old stories (sharkfishing off Mauritius; minatory pods of killer whales at Vancouver Island), natural-gas rigs belch commas of fire into the cloudless night.
