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Tucson evening sky: (Original Post) Ptah Aug 13 OP
Beautiful ! Rubyshoo Aug 13 #1
Gorgeous! I love Tucson! Pisces Aug 13 #2
Is the cloud in the photo south of camera location? LastDemocratInSC Aug 13 #3
Yes Ptah Aug 13 #4
Looks like a storm in the distance Tribetime Aug 14 #5
The clouds were extraordinary this morning also. MLAA Aug 14 #6
Been in the 🩷 high desert of AZ twice... electric_blue68 Aug 14 #12
Thanks for sharing such wonderful memories! MLAA Aug 14 #13
Thank you for posting. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 14 #7
Would you like it cropped and remaining wires "removed" ? usonian Aug 14 #8
No, thanks. Ptah Aug 14 #9
OK. Your wish is my non-command. usonian Aug 14 #10
Great cloud, gorgeous colors! electric_blue68 Aug 14 #11
lovely thunder head . rumble , bumble . AllaN01Bear Aug 14 #14

MLAA

(18,187 posts)
6. The clouds were extraordinary this morning also.
Wed Aug 14, 2024, 12:39 AM
Aug 14

For non desert dwellers, most days here are totally cloudless.

electric_blue68

(16,869 posts)
12. Been in the 🩷 high desert of AZ twice...
Wed Aug 14, 2024, 03:55 AM
Aug 14

Fell in love with the high desert as a 12 yr old through photos. In July '79 at 26 yrs old going by bus I met up w a friend (who drives) in Flagstaff. He was heading to TX, and I to San Fransisco.We drove to the Navajo, and Hopi Nations, and slept in sleeping bags overnight in Monument Valley.

As we drove up into, down out of the San Fransisco Peaks north of Flagstaff I could see the desert colors ahead.

Before we turned eastward toward the 3 Mesas of Hopiland we stopped at food and supply store. The cashier said "how humid" it was. I asked what it was, and he said, "35%".

Being an NYC'r, and raised to be polite I did not burst out laughing. In NYC in the Summer time 35% is near the lowest it can be! We who are not fans of humidity in the late Spring, Summer in particular revel in our "dry" Summer days! 🩷😄

MLAA

(18,187 posts)
13. Thanks for sharing such wonderful memories!
Wed Aug 14, 2024, 09:19 AM
Aug 14

I came to the desert straight after college in the early 80s and loved it. In those days the summer monsoons were like clockwork. Late afternoon the storms would come rolling in.p with magnificent thunder, lighten ending and heavy rain. They wouldn’t last all that long, but you could count on them. My work took me to many places over the years but always kept our home here to come back to. One of my last years working was in NYC. I loved it.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,129 posts)
7. Thank you for posting.
Wed Aug 14, 2024, 01:11 AM
Aug 14

I grew up partially in Tucson, and always loved the skies there.

These days I live in New Mexico, with equally wonderful skies.


usonian

(12,345 posts)
8. Would you like it cropped and remaining wires "removed" ?
Wed Aug 14, 2024, 01:19 AM
Aug 14

I don't use AI, not even Photoshop, but I use GIMP (It's free and open source) and I did remove some high tension wires from a scenic I took.

I do like nice cloud photos. I'll sometimes take a nice one, only to find a dot in it. Birds, miles away.

Others here? It's such a glorious sight.

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