Sometimes, it's about the clouds

Sometimes, it's about the clouds
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We're on this strip; everying is happening through the glass. Some highways make a rhythm like a train on tracks, while the changing terrain marks the miles and hours. But sometimes, it's the clouds towering over and around us that claim our awed attention. Students of our atmosphere could tell us how they come to be—those endlessly marvelous, always affecting sculptures.

I try, again and again, to capture the depth and resonance of the clouds, while still allowing the landscape to appear as more than a dark shape. But so often, to show land and sky together means sacrificing the detail of the clouds, leaving them ravaged by burnout, blues faded, a rich palette of gray subdued.

Today, though, as these clouds seem to parallel our own movement, I am almost satisfied.