Woman captures photo of cloud shaped like Michigan's Lower Peninsula

From: The Grand Rapids Press

Michigan native Sara Edwards was heading to her home north of Atlanta
on Tuesday, June 17, when she saw a cloud resembling the lower peninsula.
She shared the iPhone photo on social media and it has since began to circulate the Internet.
(Courtesy: Sara Edwards)

Grand Rapids native Sara Edwards was headed to her home north of Atlanta last week when she spotted a cloud shaped like Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

The cloud's resemblance to her home state was too good to not document, and she quickly snapped a photo with her iPhone. She thought it'd be a cute picture for Instagram and Facebook.

"Then, my friend said I should send it to someone more official," Edwards said in an email.

She sent it to Michigan Awesome, a company based in Holland that sells Michigan products, which shared the photo on Facebook. It garnered more than 18,800 "likes" and was shared over 8,000 times.

"Friends started messaging me telling me that it had gone viral, or that their friend from Oklahoma who doesn't know me just posted it on their page," Edwards said.

She said she's received a lot of enthusiastic responses from people like her: transplants who miss their home state. She grew up in Grand Rapids and also lived in Kalamazoo before moving out of state.

Edwards and her husband have laughed at comments suggesting the picture, which has an Instagram filter applied to it, was photoshopped.

"If these naysayers knew me, they'd know I can barely work my phone or download an app," she said. "Plus, I think if I were to photo shop it, I'd take out the power lines running across the whole picture."