I was inspired by blueyedace2’s photo diary cold day hiking and so I went for a short walk. The photos from this walk are below the squiggly thing.
While my photos do not really do justice to the changing light and shadows of the clouds, I’d thought I’d end with words about words:
The white fluffy things in the sky that we currently call “clouds” haven’t always been called “clouds” in English. In Old English “welkin” meant cloud until the twelfth century. “Sky,” on the other hand, comes into English from the Old Norse word “sky” which meant “cloud.” The word “cloud” comes from the Old English “clud” which meant “hill” or “rock” until about the fourteenth century. In Old English, the word for “sky” was “heofan,” the word from which we get our modern word “heaven.”