After Lee

Thursday night we got an additional inch of rain, all in about an hour. The sky cleared somewhat and provided a display of distant lightning midst valleys of carved clouds. It was the most beautiful and mesmerizing display I've ever seen.


Yesterday morning, Friday September 9th, was humid and cool. Water still stood in the backyard in lower areas about an inch deep. The sky was a rich, deep blue with lovely, tall, overlapping towers of cumulus clouds.


Goodbye, Lee.

One and a half inches of Lee

Lee has brought dramatic cumulus clouds of white, purple and warm smokey grays all mixed together with some peeping cerulean sky. Our cloudscapes with tropical storm Lee have been theatrical and quick changing. Today's cloud portrait was taken about 3:30 pm facing east while clouds moved northeast.


Today's backyard rainfall count is 1.5 inches. We had masses of thunderclouds which dropped buckets of rain then cleared away. Sunshine broke out and more clouds moved in and the cycle repeated. 


This may be the last rainy day of Lee. Tomorrow and the next few days are predicted to be merely cloudy. A great forecast for me!

Lee is coming

The disorganized weather system formerly known as tropical storm Lee moves into Virginia this afternoon bringing rain to the south. These clouds move and grow into other shapes all the while holding rain in their depths.


Beautiful cerulean grays and alizarin purples provide darkness to carve three dimensions out of two. The white cloud areas of this painting hold much more color that appears in this scan which bleaches whites.


This noontime painting looks like late afternoon. The rain comes tonight.