Weekly Photo Challenge: On The Way

On the flight to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic a couple of weeks ago, we were suddenly flying into big clouds.  And they were huge.

As we came out of another huge, wispy, fluffy cloud, I saw this …  there, on the right, just in front of the huge climbing cloud … Is that the ‘calm before the storm’? 

I was struck at how smooth and calm-looking it was, compared to the huge fluffs that we’d been flying through (and was about to fly through again).  It was a calm lake in the middle of the cloudy landscape, an oasis in the storm.

I took one last look at it before we entered the huge fluffs again …  Yep, the calm before the storm …