It started with the contrails in the sky as I drove home from picking up my groceries from Walmart. (I have started ordering my groceries online and using the curbside pickup service.) Two contrails made a big X in the sky. Then, there was the straight one off to the side. Next, I started looking at the clouds. Not the big cotton ball clouds of the summer, but the wispy featherlike clouds of winter. After putting the cold stuff in the refrigerator, I grabbed the camera.

I signed up for the Girls with Cameras Lightroom Intensive workshop. I am learning to edit photos more with Lightroom than with Photoshop. In the Creative Group, we are working with black and white photos. So, I converted my cloud photos to black and white in Lightroom.

And all the while, I had Judy Collins’s song “Both Sides Now” running through my head:

Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
Looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and they snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all

Lyrics from “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell