While I was raking leaves, the sandhill cranes were winging their way south with V's upon V's heading south. That is a bad sign when the sandhill's give up the ghost and say they are out of here. Only bad news in the future now.
Amazing that it has been five years already. Was the last time for a tornado here in town. One of the county sheriff car was prepositioned in just the right place and turned in the proper direction and caught the tornado on his dash cam. I should drive through that part of town where five or so homes were damaged and see if I can tell it had happened. Do not make to that part of town in my normal movements.
Only get to see clouds on weekends now. From yesterday.
Some interesting cirrus around noon from the front yard...
Close to local sunset...
What little post sunset color that there was...
You are not hardcore. I have been raking for over a week now already. And I am even a little south of you. You are correct though. Put enough clothes to be warm out and you will be sweating up a storm with the exercise of raking.
Was a blustery afternoon with the odd sun dog...
A warm front or some sort of boundary floated through with some puffy clouds...
Close to sunset...
The red flash looking south east...
The red flash looking south west...
Around noon today the clouds broke apart for a short while...
By sunset things had clouded back over. But within the different cloud layers there were some thin spots that tried to make something worth looking at...
Post sunset there was one complete break and a little bit of a red flash from the clearing just to the west of me...
A productive day behind the viewfinder, all day.
Big equipment, big sky...
Partial halo arc and a sundog...
And now onto the sunset...
Looking southeast at the yellows...
Looking south at the deeper colors of sunset...
Departing system timed out well for the sunset this evening.
Looking south east when I got to the pond...
The yellow flash...
The orange flash...
The red flash...