Fractal skies over Newburgh

"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."

Benoit Mandelbrot. 1924-2010. Polish Mathematician. Author of the term Fractal.

I have always thought that Mandelbrot must be a wonderful surname to have. My enthusiasm for the name was a bit dented, but only slightly, when I discovered that it translates as almond bread.