After one round of late-afternoon/sunset storms passed, and shortly before another that always will warm my memories, so will this comfortingly unusual sky. Both altostratus above, and foggy stratus and scud from my level on down, very briefly caught filtered sunset light, sandwiching the shadowed backdrop of the early “blue hour”. Cool and damp, wondrously freshened by the scent of moist earth, the scene amidst summertime outflow was remarkably unlike what most experience in this canyon, including myself before this. Within less than 30 seconds, the lower cloud would rise in northerly upslope flow, enveloping this location as sunset light vanished, and rendering a foggy mystery in which the first thunder could be heard from more storms approaching in the distance.
5 NNE Tusayan AZ (14 Jul 21) Looking NE
36.0479, -112.0938