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The author likes to think about how attending to the properties and qualities of things can be part of the practice and devising of non-representational styles of thinking. And, more specifically, he likes to detail the emergence of three ways of thinking with and doing atmospheric things as part of the pursuit of non-representational styles of work. Mason's interest in the different capacities of different bodies to affect and be affected, the sense of atmospheric fieldwork pursued here differs somewhat, not least because it does not rely solely upon the balloon as a vehicle for travel by humans. The atmospheric things that figure here: those sometimes shaped forms whose apparently discrete presence draws our attention to the relations of which they are composed. Those things always fringed, and in some sense constituted by, the atmospheric processes and relations in which they participate.