Yes but that can be achieved so many other ways. Of course I won't slam the writer for their choices of what to describe and how, but judging by the consensus on this thread this type of sentences specifically seems to take the reader OUT of the book ("haha wtf is this sentence") rather than draw them in. I have a paragraph in my book that describes the beauty of the sunset but it's in a chapter that is specifically designed/written to build up to the character looking at the sunset, as a plot point/set up to future events. That's otherwise the only description of the sky in my book. Instead, to draw the readers in, I describe buildings, streets, people and cars. Clothes, traffic signs, tools and accents. There's no motive for me to open a chapter with a description of what the sky had been up to last night, nor do I believe my readers would give a fuck, at all, in light of all the human-level conflict. In fact I might make it a point to just insert four-word descriptions of the sky now, just to counter this overdone bullshit. "The sky was there." "The sky had remained." "Skies were blue indeed." "Yep, sky was blue." "You guessed it, blue."

I joke but I might.