Our last evening of a trip to Austria offered a big, wonderfully colored and textured sky over a flat, rural river valley outside Vienna. Were it not for the photographer’s honesty, I could pass this off as one of the many fine sunset scenes from Oklahoma. Brilliantly illuminated fractocumulus clouds arched nicely around a little area of crepuscular rays, setting a calming, appreciative and reminiscent mood well-suited for the occasion. That band of broken altostratus in the west would offer its own dazzling display soon thereafter.
1 ESE Fischamend, Austria (23 Jun 15) Looking NW
48.1162, 16.6379