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Afternoon Cloud Burst 10/9/2009 1:41:40 PM
A scene of breathtaking beauty, with no camera, and no one in sight to share it with. A beautiful series of clouds passed overhead today. It happened during one of those mid-afternoon cloud-bursts, the kind that soak the Earth with drops so big that they go splat when they hit the ground. It was breath taking. Time seemed frozen, and even though it only lasted a minute, it was an amazing moment of fleeting glory. A heavy low flying layer of rain-swollen misty clouds hopped over the Earth.
Towering beyond this was a magnificent over-arching 50,000 foot high anvil topped mountain of cumulus cotton-candy. Flung far beyond it all, was a patch of wispy whiskers of cirrus clouds that raced by, connecting blue sky to inky-black outer-space realms unknown.
The whole stratospheric amalgamation flew rapidly by overhead, with each layer traveling at slightly different speeds, revealing itself in turn from behind another. Gleaming whites so white against the azure sky that I was struck snow-blind in a flash, transformed before my very eyes during a painful, wonderful experience. When alas my vision cleared, I looked around for a rainbow but saw none. Turning around quickly for someone to share it all with left me disappointed. The feeling quickly dissipated, and was replaced by a touching realization. In a furious bout of love and creation, God had splashed his water-colors across the sky just for me to see.
