A Study of Clouds: An afternoon spent looking up

Edwin Marsh

Most people can name more car models than cloud types, though the sky has been changing shapes above them their whole lives. This is an unhurried look upward: how to tell a cumulus building toward weather from one that will simply drift apart, what those wispy high streaks are doing before a front arrives, and why watching them settle for a while is its own quiet reward. Slow, observant, and easy to return to.