Leah and I were driving back home from town Friday night close to dusk. The sky was full of clouds lit by the setting sun. A view of the sunset itself would have been nice, but we had to settle for this.
This is the view from our front porch looking east over town.
The sky had been full of puffy cumulus clouds all day. There were some thundershowers 20 or 30 miles south of us. They didn’t come to visit here, unfortunately. We are quite dry here, although there has been a lot of rain all around us. We have watched significant storms brew and creep around us, parting as they crossed over us so we remained dry, or simply disappearing before they reached us. This is a typical summertime pattern.
Our Atlanta TV meteorologists have attributed some of our current weather to Tropical Storm Barry, which is really too far away to have much effect here. We are hoping some of the moisture channeled up from the Gulf will make its way here and maybe cause enough rain to encourage our new plantings to live another day.
That is a beautiful eastern view at sunset. Love the expanse of it. Hope you get some rain there.
Robin — We get some nice skies. I just wish we could see the sunset a little better.
We did get some rain! It was a little over two inches. It might not have come in time to save some of our native dogwoods, which are looking pretty bad right now. And it was far to late to save the grass seed I planted in two small areas. It looks like those are going to be bare dirt over the winter.