It just goes to show you, if you really want to see clouds, you can see them. Really, all you have to do is stop for a couple minutes, and look for them. Guaranteed you will find them. Granted, they were ever changing, and I took several photos, but this is the one that I liked the best. Looking out the window right now, from the 21st floor of the hotel I am staying in in Chicago, the clouds are unremarkable. Nothing really to comment on, although I do feel kind of bad for demeaning a cloud. Clouds do not have an easy life, to the best of my knowledge. There was I time when I pondered 'how many elephants does a cloud weigh?' Clouds are full of moisture, so there is a lot of weight in a cloud. If you can think of cloud mass as elephants, it just gives you something else to wonder about.Estival -- Noun. of or relating to the summer. The children were reveling in their remaining weeks of summer vacation, filling their school free estival afternoons with swimming and playing.
Did You Know? Estival and festival look so much alike that you might think they're closely related, but that isn't the case. Estival traces back to aestas, which is the Latin word for "summer" (and which also gave us estivate, a verb for spending the summer in a torpid state-a sort of hot-weathered equivalent of hibernation). Festival also comes from Latin, but it has a different and unrelated root. It derives from festivus, a term that means "festive" or "merry." Festivus is also the ancestor of festive and festivity as well as the much rarer festivous (which also means "festive") and infestive, meaning "not merry, mirthless."
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