One of the most amazing sunsets I (still!) have witnessed wasn’t just the astoundingly brilliant display of light and clouds and the northwest, but the rest of the sky too. At a right angle to the left of the supercellular mammatus, the southwestern sky also blazed brightly, on and all around a fast-growing young dryline cumulonimbus that didn’t exist visibly just a few minutes before. Thirteen years later, when I first saw (and bought) a poster of the A. T. Cox western painting Just for the Heck of It, done a year after this photo with a cowboy galloping his horse before a remarkably similar sky, I wondered if the artist had been nearby.
5 E Roll OK (26 Apr 89) Looking SW
35.783, -99.6236