Michael Barker’s Reviews > Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside > Status Update

“…full of ham, we were absolutely on cloud 9 (a figure of speech that is said to have originated in London in 1896 when Sir Ralph Abercromby’s attention coincided with the newly published International Cloud Atlas. The scientific document listed the cumulonimbus as cloud nine, the tallest possible cloud.”