In focus
It’s a Cloud, It’s a Plane... Laura Clement’s daily morning
BY GEORGE
SOLTES walk along Manzanita Road seemed to PHOTO BY enter a time warp in mid-August when LAURA CLEMENT she looked up to see a World War II bomber rumbling overhead. The B-17, which turned out to be part of a historic military plane tour, “was sitting heavy and low in the sky doing a pattern.” “I figured that was my one cool thing to see for the day,” she said. At twilight, however, the children’s author and photographer, who always keeps an eye out for beautiful and unusual images, peered up and got another surprise. “During my evening walk,” Clement said, “the sky bloomed with clouds and sunset, and above Seabold Farm, out over the Salish Sea, I saw another plane, only this one, though similar in shape, was made of clouds with a rainbow sheen. I snapped a shot thinking that the magic and beauty of the sight wouldn’t translate...but maybe it did.”
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