Rarely Blue #SkywatchFriday

So much gloom, so much rain (not that we in upstate New York can complain - millions of people have it worse than us).  It seems as if the skies are rarely blue.

 This past weekend, though, the sun actually came out, and I rushed to take some pictures before it disappeared again.

I sat in my backyard and watched the sky.

Every few minutes, Nature presented me with a different view.

But the clear skies couldn't last forever.  As I photographed a young red horse chestnut tree in bloom, the storm clouds started to gather again.

And now, on this last day of May...

I'm thinking of the people in danger of floods and those who have been in the way of tornadoes.  I lived in the tornado belt (Wichita Falls, Texas, Wichita, Kansas), and not that far from one of the areas in Arkansas that is in dire danger of flooding.

Having been through a flood myself in 2011, there are a lot of people in my thoughts today. The scope of this unfolding disaster is massive.

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