Sunday thunderstorms

During this very busy day, I managed to see these astonishingly beautiful clouds in the southeast above downtown Richmond as thunderstorms moved in from the west at about 4 pm. The light changed quickly as the larger, heavy clouds rolled in behind me. These cumulus clouds still caught the weird light of the day and held the dark of the coming storm.


This was a strong but brief storm with rumbling thunder and distant lightning. As it has so often been this summer, there was not enough rain. Gardens and lawns exhibit that late summer droop of fatigue and thirst.