Awake

Cloud Watching on an April Evening

It was another gorgeously beautiful day in Ashland today. Blue sky all day with a smattering of happy puffy Cumulus popping up here and there. But, at the end of the day, a thunderhead boiled up south of us in the Siskiyous.

I left the Y just before seven and headed straight home to grab the camera. Camera as my co-pilot, I headed over to Emigrant Lake in hopes of a view of our One Big Cloud of the day.

I parked at the lot before the boathouse and scampered up the dam. Ooo! Pretty cloud.

While I was snapping photos of the big cloud, the sun was setting. And lest you think I was exaggerating about there only being one cloud, I turned around and took this picture of The Other Cloud in the sky this evening. (See, I was mostly telling the truth!)

And, now, back to the action! The cumulonimbus continues to grow and happy people get one last waterskiing run before dark. Waterskiing in April. Mwahaha. You wish you were here, don't you.

I was beginning to get hungry for dinner. (Sometimes I forget about dinner and just want to go take pictures of pretty things.) So I headed out. I got to the entrance of Emigrant Lake, looked South and...

The Anvil. Duh duh duuuuhhhhhhhhhh.

I had to get a closer look. I turned south on Hwy 66 and found a turnout.

The Anvil Cometh!

Mmmmmmmmmm. Annnnnnvilllllllll. My favorite. (Sorry, I kept missing the lightning. But it was there!)

Ooo. Watch how it Billows. Billow, Anvil. Billow.

Sadly, it was time to go. I took one last look at the Cumulonimbus and it's Happy Tail.

I'm glad the birdies liked the sunset too.

And that's the story of The One Cloud We Had Today (and The Other One, Too).

Happy Tuesday.