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I love them also but even though the temps and amount of sunlight scream summer, the calendar still say 15 or 16 more day till the beginning of summer. Most all of the iris blooms are gone here. Good news, the lillies are opening up.

Sunset on 5-29. Landscape mode. Taken with the 24-70mm at 35mm... Portrait mode. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

These ere a sunset on 5-28. Probably going to over-share on this one. What it looked like when I got out there. Taken with the 24-70mm at 33mm... The start of the post sunset color and a nice spotlight. Taken with the 24-70mm at 61mm... The slight sun pillar is still there. Taken with the 24-70mm at 28mm... Getting a bit *closer*. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... Max red on the horizon. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... And ending the evening with some red in the cirrus way up high. Taken with the 24-70mm at 30mm... Cheers!

I am woefully way behind on processing my cloud pics. These were a sunrise on 5-24. Just a few layers of clouds. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... A bit later with the Sun a smidge higher in the sky. Taken with the 24-70mm at 33mm...

The best KIND happened today, 82/34 and an RH of 17%. Kind of hard on my guitars.

This time after 3 hours of 87.8, KIND rounds up to 88 for the high today. Must have had an intra five minute that was 88 or better.

Interesting. Nine times between about 4 and 5 o'clock KIND hit 87.8 degrees yet when the 6 hour max came out it rounded down to 87. It was the first what I call warm day around these parts. The Sun felt kind of brutal.

The airplanes seem to be photobombing our cloud pics today. At least yours is an airliner. Mine was just a pedestrian C-172.

Well, that was an old fashion gully washer. Had 0.56" which sounds rather bland but when it falls in 15 minutes it becomes something else. And lol at KIND only getting 0.04 in the same time frame. Those 22 miles can make a big difference.

I am never going to get caught up at this rate. These are from the evening of the 22nd, Sunday. Plenty of clouds when I got out to the firehouse. Taken with the 24-70mm at 28mm... The start of the yellows as the Sun heads for the horizon. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... The start of the post sunset colors with the orange. Taken with the 100mm... Max orange. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... Max red. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... As the color was leeching from the sky overhead and confined to the horizon. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... Good night my darl'in, wherever you are...

The greatest spectacle in motorsports racing.

These were taken on Thursday, the 19th. And if I remember correctly, I was between two MCS's for the sunset. When I got out to the firehouse. Taken with the 24-70mm at 35mm... Here some the Sun. Taken with the 24-70mm at 31mm... At max dynamics. Taken with the 24-70mm at 63mm... The post sunset color. Taken with the 24-70mm at 63mm and the GND...

Sorry about being way behind in the cloud pictures. Home ownership issues has been taking up most of my time here recently. These are from Tuesday, the 17th. When I got out to the firehouse. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... The start of the color. Taken with the 24-70mm at 42mm... The end of the color. Taken with the 24-70mm at 35mm...

I have tried for a long time to get one of these severe back-lit blooms to look tight and I might have come so awfully close. Also I am proud of the juggling act to physically get the image. I am juggling the black background, white reflector, the shutter release and shading the lens from the Sun to avoid lens flares. All this with only two hands and a lap. I really should get an assistant to make this easier on myself but where is the fun in that?

Kind of time dependent but on visual sat whatever is moving southeast to northwest in northwestern Iowa looks cool. Counter flow moving.

Tonight, I figured the dry air would win and there would be nothing. I as a little wrong and had to hustle to the municipal lot. There was some smoke, maybe, that must have kept the clouds hanging on. Taken with the 24-70mm at 53mm... Looking more northwest. Taken with the 24-70mm at 44mm... Here post sunset you can see smoke/haze whatever even better, in-between all the wires. Taken with the 100mm...

I was behind in my processing of images. These were taken yesterday, 5-15. Some crepuscular rays from a break in the storm clouds. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... Some interesting colors as the evening wore on. Taken with the 24-70mm at 35mm...

Here is a John Deere colored Hosta leaf. One of my Bearded Iris.

Tonight was edge dynamics. Those can be entertaining but the light changes rather rapidly and it is work trying to stay ahead of the game. What it looked like when I got out to the firehouse. Taken with the 24-70mm at 45mm... Just going to skip to the good stuff. Looking to the northeast as the lower clouds got lit up. Taken with the 16-35mm at 16mm... Looking north as the spot light headed towards the west. Taken with the 16-35mm at 16mm... Back to the west for the best of the color dynamics for the evening. Taken with the 24-70mm at 31mm... Three Cheers!

With the convection one whole state closer, the wild colors were muted tonight. What it looked like when I got out to the firehouse. Taken with the 24-70mm at 35mm... The view to the north. Taken with the 24-70mm at 67mm... Just before the color got shut off like turning off a light switch. Taken with the 24-70mm at 50mm...

Had some out of the ordinary this evening. Retrograding cirrus. It was moving east to west. Now, low clouds do this all the time. I do not recall retrograding cirrus happening very often. What it looked like when I got out to the firehouse. Taken with the 24-70mm at 41mm... As the Sun sunk beneath the horizon. The oranges. Taken with the 24-70mm at 57mm... This is looking southwest as the wild colors were moving in. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm and the GND... Back to looking towards the northwest and max color dynamics. Taken with the 24-70mm at 59mm... Last image of the night and the reds, There was also a faint sun pillar. Taken with the 24-70mm at 59mm... Good night my darlin', where ever you are...

Texas stole your thunder.

KIND is only 82 but the dewpoint is at 70. Juicy outside. I as walking from building/tree shadow to building/tree shadow on the walk to the Post Office just a while ago.

only 79 at KIND but the winds were gusting to 30mph. The flags were ripped straight out.

A cloud sandwich for today. Clouds during sunrise. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... And now for the back half of the bun. The beginning of the post sunset color. Taken with the 24-70mm at 65mm... Here comes the color from the east. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... The last of the color before it smeared to the horizon. Taken with the 24-70mm at 41mm... Cheers!