To watch the clouds is to invite wonder and serenity into your day. To listen to the clouds is to bask in silence. But over the Highlands near Inverness, Scotland, Aaron Barrow spotted a cloud that appears to be listening back.

The distinctive earlike middle of the formation is a lenticularis cloud, which is here forming at the Altocumulus level. This cloud type is usually disc- or lozenge-shaped, and it would have formed as the air flowing over the region’s mountains took on a rising and dipping wavelike flow. Developing where the air cooled most at the crest of one of these invisible waves, the shape of Aaron’s lenticularis cloud was accentuated by the glancing angle of the evening light.

A problem shared, as they say, is a problem aired, and this Altocumulus lenticularis is all ears.