Autumn Clouds

Big Frank has a new camera! What better way to start than with clouds. The picture above was taken from his deck looking east. It is the sunset reflected on the eastern clouds receding with the glow of the sunset lingering - but for a few short minutes. Darkness seems to fall in the fall; it comes quickly and suddenly. The clouds on which it shines are not the large cumulus clouds full of hope and tinged always with the possible threat of storms, no these are autumnal clouds. They are nostalgic, gentle, lingering banks that fade easily into the dark.