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A Desert Chiaroscuro

Lake Mead.  People have always been fascinated by eclipses, and rightly so.  I felt a different kind of eclipse the other day.   In mid-winter the mighty sun, Sol Invictus, weakens.  You can experience it but you still hardly believe it.

High filmy clouds happen in the winter in the Southwestern states.  The sky is bright and cheerful.  But something is missing.  It is a little bit scary.

Such clouds are not my favorite.  Recently I had a chance to experience puffy cumulus clouds in the tri-state, time-zone whiplash hell of Utah, Arizona, and Nevada.

These photos might appear to show a freakishly variegated geology.  Believe it or not, it is just the lucky lining-up of shadows and mountains.



 


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