Whenever I travel, I always opt for the window seat so I can enjoy the scenery. But for most of this flight over the U.S., thick clouds prevented me from seeing the terrain below.
![DSC02544](http://insidejourneystravel.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/dsc02544.jpg)
So I decided to look at them instead of reading or snoozing.
![DSC02545](http://insidejourneystravel.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/dsc02545.jpg)
Each time I looked, the pattern and thickness had changed.
![DSC02548](http://insidejourneystravel.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/dsc02548.jpg)
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Finally, it covered the land below. And I remembered the line, I really don’t know clouds at all, from Joni Mitchell‘s song, Both Sides Now.