Cloudspotting in the country

Water and light
Ilderton, ON
June 2022
This photo originally shared on Instagram

I’m pretty sure we all did this when we were kids: we’d lie down on the grass and stare up at the sky.

And as kids were likely to do, we’d let our imaginations run wild, with clouds forming fantastical, ever changing shapes, their stories playing out endlessly, high over our heads.

Sometimes the clouds were artificial, painted ruler-like across the sky by planes jetting off to destinations forever unknown.

However they were formed, it was a pretty magical way to spend time. And to this day, I’ll look way up and wonder why we ever stopped. I mean, what is it about adulthood that stops us from looking for magic above us? Or anywhere else, for that matter?

I get it: adult life is serious in ways the young versions of ourselves never fully appreciated. Only now that I’ve had a chance to experience it myself do I realize where the droop in my dad’s posture came from when he got home after a long day at work. Or the sigh in my mother’s voice as she helped get us bickering kids ready for school.

But still.

There’s no going back to worry-free cloudspotting on the front lawn. But it still can’t hurt to look up and wonder what it felt like when we did.

The magic doesn’t fully go away when we grow up. At least it shouldn’t.

#ldnont #ilderton #london #ontario #canada #weather #wx #blue #sky #cloud #clouds #cloudspotting #contrail #photography #apple #iphone #shotoniphone #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded #lifeinthemargins

Related:

Followed around by clouds, June 2022

Golden hour over Wonderland Road, November 2020

Speechless underneath a painted sky, July 2020

When clouds look like fish, March 2020

Someone painted the sky again, December 2019

Thematic Photographic 252 - Cloudspotting, July 2013

A dog flies through the sky, July 2013

Beauty from fear, July 2013

As darkness approaches, July 2013

Storm's coming, July 2013