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The forecast for the afternoon yesterday included a storm front coming in from the south and sure enough in the late afternoon the clouds began piling up. How I love to see those summer thunderstorms come rolling in!

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Today began with bright sun and finished with heavy clouds and snowstorms. March is supposed to go out like a lamb, not a polar bear!
At the mid point of a short hike today the clouds were very interesting and so I brought back some photos of them. (I have a huge weakness for clouds!) The [...]

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Finally, a little relief from the heat and desert-like humidity. It was only a little rain, but with it came cooler temperatures and beautiful clouds. A peaceful, although likely short, break from the fires.
Raindrops on wildflowers:

Clouds with windows:

Clouds above, clouds below:

How pleasant it is to know that those are real clouds for a change and [...]

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It was an orange day, from the clouds at sun rise

to the lilies in the late afternoon. I wonder, why orange?

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Not a bad start for a day.

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What a difference 180º makes. These two photos were taken at about 8:30 last night, the first toward the west, the second toward the east. They were taken ten minutes apart.

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I don’t know if this phenomenon occurs in non-mountains areas or not. At sunset there was a dark storm overhead and to the west, but at a compass reading of 135º (directly southeast) a window in the sky opened and orange clouds showed through: the other side of the sunset.

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Last evening during an interlude between two thunder storms I took this photo. It was black overhead and to the west from the storm, but there was a light show going on due east. Storms in the mountains sometimes have strange twists.

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