cloud illusions I recall

In July last year Ben challenged us to split our photos in two for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half. I had taken a photograph of the Wall Centre here in Vancouver surrounded by clouds and titled my post for the challenge Both Sides Now. Perhaps you remember it.

For this week’s Discover Challenge: Song Ben asks us this time to “Tell us a story about a piece of music that stayed with you.” How could I not repeat my love of Joni Mitchell’s song Both Sides Now as I explained in this quote from my post in July 2015:

“I took this photo with my iPhone a few weeks ago looking up at the Wall Centre here in Vancouver. The words of Joni Mitchell’s song, Both Sides Now from her album Clouds, instantly came to my mind and a moment of warm reverie came over me as I looked up at the clouds and remembered hearing her voice for the first time in 1969. I was driving my old yellow Triumph TR2 down the Old Kent Road in London, and as she started singing on the car radio I had to pull over to listen to the rest of the song, a magical moment frozen in time and one which has remained with me ever since.”

Both my love of the song and of clouds themselves have never left me. We are fortunate indeed where we live in Vancouver to enjoy glorious sunsets throughout the year, so often accompanied by wonderful cloud formations. My camera is always to hand to record these masterpieces of nature that surround us every day. What better way to share them with you, both as a gallery and a slideshow, and accompanied once again by the unforgettable voice of Joni Mitchell singing one of her greatest songs.

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.

Joni Mitchell 1967

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Amazing masterpieces indeed.

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Andrew Seal says:

November 2, 2016 at 8:38 am

Thanks Miriam

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Beautiful cloudy skies Andrew – and a favorite song as well! Nicely put together!!

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Andrew Seal says:

November 2, 2016 at 8:38 am

Many thanks Tina

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So many gorgeous images of the sky and clouds! I really don’t know clouds at all either. I do love them though. “)

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Andrew Seal says:

November 2, 2016 at 8:44 am

Thanks Deborah. I know you do with your lovely post today😊

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1. circadianreflections says:
  
  November 2, 2016 at 9:35 am
  
  Thank you so much Andrew! You’re too kind!
  
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2. Andrew Seal says:
  
  November 2, 2016 at 9:51 am
  
  My pleasure
  
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Thank you! Thank you for the music – one of my favourite songs EVER too. And thank you for this stunning array of pictures that has my eyes beetling backwards and forwards, up and down and just drinking in natures most grandiose of moments … the going down of the sun. And the slide-show forces less discursive viewing which can only be a good thing. A wonderful post (and I had remembered the original) 🙂

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