Cloud Watching

I SPENT MUCH of last week cloud watching, lazy chap that I am. From a remote vantage point beneath Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains I spent five days doing little but watching clouds form, drift about, and then fade away. To some people, such a pastime probably sounds dull in the extreme. But to me – honestly – the five days couldn’t have been better spent.

Cloud cap sitting behind the crest of the Sangre de Cristos, and occasionally spilling over it.

The Sangre de Cristo Mountains have alw...