Little Cloud drifts away from the Tall Mountains and meets
a Blue Jay named Jack, in my Kindle Ebook story for kids called Little Cloud. So where is Little Cloud going, and what are
Little Cloud and Jack up to? Again, we
go to the top of Mount Walker, this time looking south at the panoramic views of
Puget Sound and Green Hill, Turner Mountain and Buck
Mountain. On the hazy day in August, 2014, when I took
the reference photos, it was difficult to make out much in the distance. In referring to Wikipedia and the Free
Dictionary some interesting facts emerge:
Puget Sound is an inlet of the Pacific Ocean and part of the Salish
Sea. In an unusual precedent, it was
explored by Capt. George Vancouver who, rather than name the inlet after
himself, named it for his aide Peter Puget.
The illustrations for Little Cloud and Jack surfing the breeze in the
sky, had a more high tech birth, requiring a Photoshop filter from Alien Skin’s Eye Candy 7 software, called Motion Trail.
This plug-in was used to illustrate the meteorological phenomenon known
as thermal lift, which is used by soaring birds (and Little Clouds) as an
energy source. Despite this energy aide,
Jack got worn out playing in the sky with Little Cloud and expressed a wish to
return to his home on Small Mountain.
More about this in Part III.