A Gathering Storm

I was sitting in my office at home writing a post for the blog on Friday, July 8, 2016, when I glanced out the window. Although the Sun was shining on my yard, the sky itself was a dark, ominous gray filling the view. Afternoon storms in Colorado are common, but this one seemed different. So I went outside to look, and this is what I saw: Yeah. That's a panorama taken with my iPhone, and to be honest it collapses the scale horizontally a bit; this cloud was far larger than it seems in the photo,...