Time itself and timeless tales, stories of homesteaders' hardship and joy, faith and perseverance, somewhere within these walls, forever now are lost to the High Plains wind. O that wind: it is the same series of airflows responsible for the back-side storm clouds above, for buoying the flight of barn swallows nesting within, for the doses of blown rainwater and snowdrifts weakening the walls … [Read more...]
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Sunset Encounter of the First Kind
To a few native tribes, this tower is sacred ground. To adventurers, a challenging climb awaits. To geologists, it's a differentially eroded igneous phonolite intrusion. Movie buffs recognize it from climactic UFO scenes in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Tourists and campers flock to the tower to experience the looming presence of a unique natural feature in this world. Painters and … [Read more...]
Late Dakota Light
From beyond the horizon, the set sun still cast deep warm hues across a western South Dakota sky covered in trailing anvil from a severe thunderstorm complex. Low scud clouds silhouetted the sky, as higher, thinner fractus shreds transmitted more color, marvelously texturing the view. All of this unfolded amidst a refreshing aroma of rain-soaked earth, and the last calls of daylight … [Read more...]
Sunset under Arcus
Sometimes the best views of a storm do come from directly beneath! The southern end of a line of outflow-surfing severe thunderstorms thinned enough to allow sunset light under the turbulent, deeply textured outflow clouds, at just the right time to spray a marvelous range of warm tones against northwestward-facing cloud chunks on the inside of the "band shell" or "whale's mouth". Typically, too … [Read more...]
Sparkling Twilight Supercell
As the fourth of at least five Colorado supercells to march roughly up I-76 on this amazing storm-observing evening, this may have been the most gloriously gaudy of the series. During the photographically enchanting "blue hour" of twilight, the highly electrified Colorado storm surfed an outflow path left by its predecessors storm, flashing its own tones across the land and sky. The … [Read more...]
Golden Hour at Grand River Grassland
Rolling shortgrass prairie carpeting the northern High Plains is illuminated in a golden hue that naturally deepens the visual color saturation, behind a cluster of thunderstorms that deepens the illumination contrast of the scene. This was a "golden hour" not only for photographic light, but for experiential immersion in the gentle majesty of the western Dakota grasslands. Rain-cooled air … [Read more...]
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