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(1,959 posts)Thx
Pisces
(5,761 posts)LastDemocratInSC
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(5,673 posts)MLAA
(18,187 posts)For non desert dwellers, most days here are totally cloudless.
electric_blue68
(16,869 posts)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)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 wouldnt 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)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)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.
usonian
(12,345 posts)electric_blue68
(16,869 posts)AllaN01Bear
(22,406 posts)lovely thunderbumper