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It was raining this evening so I did not go out to the pond. I was watching the hockey game instead. Lucky timing that right at the first intermission I noticed some color in the window shades. So I went out on the front porch and shot this even though it was still raining. So the quality is suffering here a little bit...

Did a flock of sandhill cranes make a bunch of nests in a ASOS sensor suite there?

This evening I could tell even from leaving work that the sunset should be a good color one. Mainly cirrus overhead with the system to the south of me still. My perceptions were verified. Local sunset... The view to the south east where the more serious clouds were... The extent of the color. Well as much as I could. This is at 16mm and it still could not record everything... The purples and reds and the last of the color.... Say goodnight Gracie.

Was not entirely sold on the sunset being something to look at, but I was out at the pond just-in-case. Local sunset... I figured the color would be shut off rather rapidly, so I pointed more up into the sky and got just about all of the clouds I could get before they disappeared... I figured if there was any color it would be way on the horizon so I shifted over to the 100mm lens... As I was taking to above image the red started to take off. So I had yo do another emergency lens change back to the 16-35mm. While I did miss the brightest part of the red flash, I still got a decent amount of red. Not bad for a final image of the night...

You should have stayed at LAF. Actually the atmosphere unzipped between me and LAF. Only 1.4 here. I see a report of 3+ just south of Frankfort. The odd thing was the first inch here was a normal Midwest summer deluge. Wind and rain blowing every which direction. Then there was a 30 to 45 minutes pause. The last half an inch came straight down with no wind. I used to see that more on Taiwan with the marine influence. Kind of strange to see it in Indiana.

That blew up almost right on top of that radar. Too close?

Hooray! Finally mixed out most of the smoke. And even had a decent sunset for once. Good thing as the pattern looks to get wet again. Local sunset... Beginning of post sunset color... Extent of post sunset color... That's All Folks...

Been trying to get an image that shows the effect of all the smoke from the Canadian wildfires. Kind of hard to do. The satellite images do it better justice. But this evening A got two sort of decent images. In this one the sun is orange from all the smoke on the horizon while the clouds overhead are still white where you are looking through less smoke... In this one you can actually see the smoke in the blue part of the sky. Hopefully the reduction to fit on the server does no squash it...

^ You are welcome, but the farmers here are not too keen on accepting your gift.

^ Does that mean the Post Office is under water? Fourth and Washington is two blocks further away from the river from the Post Office.

I get nervous when tail-end Charlie of a line is about to pass overhead.

Kind of threading the needle this evening. Had a little break right around sunset. Local sunset...

The unofficial start of summer. The Indianapolis 500 is history and written in the books. Fire up the grills and put the tops down on the convertibles. Had a great day behind the viewfinder again here in Indiana. Started off with a vivid rainbow... The sunset... A close-up of the max color dynamics... Stick a fork in it. This evening is over...

Got to love Mother Natures alarm clock. Took two close lightning strikes and had a fair blow. Think I will try and go back to sleep now. I had no intensions of getting up this early. It is my day off.

Two shots from the pre-sunset this evening. Looking south west... Looking north east...

I felt bad for the horse. You could see it had no problems with vehicles. But something going on with that guy in front of that other car really had the horse's attention as it drew close. Looks like the guy was fighting with a tripod. Was it a bang or clatter from it? Or was the guy on a Bluetooth phone and Reed Timmering and yelling at someone else. What ever something momentarily startled the horse and it sort of/ kind of lost it's gait for a nanosecond, but recovered well. Things like that can hurt a horse.

Sky conditions around sunset this evening...

This evening had a little bit of cirrus. A lot of contrail remnants. One or two recent contrails. But what I was really trying to image was a slight sun pillar. Hopefully you can see it.

0.58 in my tippy bucket from this mornings rain. While get to add more tomorrow. Anybody breaking out the cubit measuring stick yet?

Yes and no. Clear as mud, right? Actually all the genetics are more to take full advantage of a full growing season. If things gets too late, the crop is getting the wrong conditions at the wrong time. If the root structure is not fully developed before the August/September hot and dry happen the crop will have reduced yields. To make matters worse, if it really starts getting late they (the farmers) will have to get in the fields regardless of soft conditions and that will exasperate compactions and reduce yields. Then things will be later. And later harvest time means a better chance of more soft conditions. Can you see how the snowball just keeps getting worse yet?

Looking southeast when I got to the pond this evening. Was the backside of the dryline that moved through earlier... Here is a view to the east but in this one I used the GND filter. You can tell from the increased contrast in the image... Post sunset color, what little there was...

Yep it is May in Indianapolis. Just had 0.79 in the tippy bucket in the last hour. Big fat droplets. Little bit of wind to keep it interesting.

Another night that looked almost like a carbon copy of the previous evening. Only this time there were a lot of fishermen out at the pond. Trouble was they brought their non-fishing kids with them. The kids were taking sticks and constantly whacking at the algae. Kind of messed up the reflections. Pre-sunset... Post-sunset...

I see what you did there. May the force be with you... lol

Last image for this page, I think. I was late getting out to the pond but it was a still evening and made for a nice reflection...