Cloud Watching

  I have an elderly neighbor who was telling me today that he likes to "cloud watch".  He sits in his rocking chair on the front porch and watches the clouds as they pass overhead.  This particular day, he was exceedingly happy because he claims that he saw Ben Franklin and Abraham Lincoln floating around up there in the sky.  Imagine that!  The neighbor went on to say that he sees all sorts of things but mostly people....dead people...??  I guess that is applicable because Old Ben and Old Abe are not with us any longer but the elderly gentleman said he never sees anyone that is still alive.  Alrighty then...

  After a a lengthy chat, our phone call ended with me pondering why I never see dead people in clouds.  Is this some special skill that I am sorely lacking?  So when I took the old dog out for his last run of the day, we headed to the pier.  There, I can see just about any cloud in the sky.  I sat for a good while looking up at the sky.  Nope.  No dead people.  In fact, no people at all.  No cats, dogs, rabbits, elephants, dinosaurs or anything that resembled anything but a cloud.  All I saw was the possibility of a rain shower heading our way. 

  Perhaps I need to venture out when the sky is filled with puffy white clouds to do my cloud watching.  Maybe the dark, threatening clouds only carry rain and not images.  To be honest, only thrice have I ever seen anything that resembled people in the sky and one of those looked a lot like a demon. So...what do I see in the clouds? ....  That likely chance of a rain shower.