I drove this lonely road—not the only one that I’ve ever known—leading to a young cumulonimbus rising off the southern part of the Mt. Graham massif, in eastern Arizona’s Pinaleno Mountains. When a storm blows up and poses like this, practically begging for photography, why not accommodate? This was a rewarding storm-observing and shooting day, being able to experience this midday activity and fire-scar scenery in the cooling high elevations of the Pinalenos, followed by a marvelous outflow-blasting storm complex and wondrous sunset well to the southeast in southwestern New Mexico, near the Mexican border.
3 SSW Cactus Flat AZ (5 Jul 21) Looking SW
32.7151, -109.7292