G and I were out for a walk the other night, talking about and wondering why the sky has been so beautiful for the last month. Evening after evening of just impossible grandeur. Every night the sky so gorgeous you can practically hear angels singing as the sun sets.
And because you’re all nature observers who’ve probably been out yourself walking every night, talking with your significant other about why the evening sky has been so brilliant this past month, it seems like an interesting question to throw to the group. Has the atmosphere been particularly unstable this summer, which has led to more towering cumulus clouds than usual? Has the relatively cool weather meant less smog, and thus clearer evening skies? Is the opposite true – have the wildfires out west been producing a filter of smog in the high atmosphere which has the colors in the sky really popping? Am I just forgetting how pretty the sky is every July and early August, like an in-the-moment child who proclaims that every Christmas is the best ever, year after year?
I don’t know, but what a sky we’ve been having. Here are some pictures I snapped over the course of 20 minutes on that walk. I didn’t edit any of them. I didn’t even really bother composing the shots. Just snap, snap, snap, trying to catch the grays and purples and pinks and blues, the different textures and colors going on simultaneously at every point in the sky. I didn’t come close to capturing the full beauty of it, though some of the pictures came out pretty well.
