More Cloud Pictures

Usually, we get a day of fall rain, but none since the one day in mid-September.  There's been rain in the northern part of the country, but not where we are.  But the clouds have been afreakingmazing over the past week, and the sunsets have been show-stopping.  Yes, I know that I've just posted cloud pictures, but now I have some more.  If you can't celebrate cool fronts, turning leaves, pumpkins, big bowls of warm soup on cold days, or thunderstorms, then you find something to mark the season change.  That and we spend many months of the year, especially the summer, with no clouds at all.

Parting of the clouds to reveal an orange-pink time of sunset. The sun sets right now about about 5:15. By mid-December, that will be ~4:30.  It gets pitch black very quickly, right now by 5:30.

This was incredible, like a bowl of clouds with the sun shooting up out of the middle.

This was mid-day. The 3D effect of this was exceptional but doesn't show up much on film.  What you have is that greyish smear towards the bottom left was low-hanging.  The big white smear covering the sun was mid-level, and the stratus clouds were way up high.  And the blue (instead of khaki)!  It reminded me of a Big. Texas. Sky.