What was this snowy mountain we saw in our rear-view mirror yesterday as we drove in an easterly direction down Derby Street? In fact, it was a rather magnificent, low-lying cloud formation above the Berkeley-Oakland hills above Claremont Canyon.

Did anyone manage to snap some better photographs than the one above?

Tracey Taylor is co-founder of Berkeleyside and co-founder and editorial director of Cityside, the nonprofit parent to Berkeleyside and The Oaklandside. Before launching Berkeleyside, Tracey wrote for...