by Ian Peek

Created on: February 07, 2007   Last Updated: March 03, 2007

Perhaps I lack the imagination for it, but I've never really seen many clouds that look like things.

One exception that sticks out in my mind though was at infants/ junior school, out in the playground when a massive cloud shape seemed to get everyone's attention. Out of a lower layer of cloud a massive trunk-like body rose out with two arms feeding back into the lower layer from the shoulders. Above shoulder-height there was a distinct head shape which seemed to be wearing a hat, and have a crooked nose.

We all just kind of looked at it for a while and psyched each other out make-believing it was some huge monster that was going to come get us, and then the top collapsed downward as if it actually were lurching towards the earth, craning its big head down. The shape distorted too much to look like anything shortly after but for a while it brought a few kiddish fantasies to life. It almost made a lunch-hour interesting.

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