Sunset between storm fronts, en route to Publix and Walgreen’s.

[full_metal_ox]

Taken on 21 June 2024 at 20:33 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time, as I hurried up the street through the break in the rain.





My limited equipment does the scene nothing even remotely resembling justice: neither the gauzy rainbow-sherbet luminosity nor the grand theatricality of the skyscape, with the air of a vintage book illustration or a meticulously painted film backdrop. A detail I particularly like is the small dark cumulus cloud at bottom center that suggests a person astride a charging (pig? bear? huge dog?)

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[full_metal_ox]

A detail that the cloud cover doesn’t show was the Full Solstice Moon, furthering the immersive portentous feeling of the night.