Of Fire & Ice

A few years ago we attended a school function. Me being me and always being concerned with the severe weather that was approaching. I was halfway eyeballing the assembly and halfway watching the radar. Ok, it might have been 60/40 because it was a sports awards ceremony. Nonetheless, I ushered my family to the car in a jiff to beat the storm front and it was just in time, too.

I was using a Nokia Lumia 1020 at the time, which I still own, which has an amazing camera; coming in at 41mp. Not kidding. So, there we are, moments after leaving the parking lot I glanced out the window to see quite a sight. Dark blue/green-ish clouds and sheets of rain on one side, the setting sun, beaming through a serendipitous opening on the other. Keep in mind that 30-40% of all the photos on my machine and phone are of the sky. It’s just a thing I do. Because sometimes you see something amazing.

I enhanced the colors a bit to give the impact of how my eyes saw it. All it’s missing is a bolt of lightning. I have those, too. Also, I suppose I should talk about that time where I saw a rainbow every day for six days. Maybe seven. It’s been a while. That’s for another day.