Sepia Sky

After our one mostly-sunny day, yesterday - and a partially-sunny day, today - we in the Minneapolis area had our first major storm of the summer season. It was pretty major. The storm stretched from the north edge of the state all the way to the south edge and there were apparently a few tornadoes, even. So it's been a pretty serious weather day.

But, that said, it's turned into a rather technicolor evening. As the storm was passing, the sky turned green - not a scary green, but a late afternoon green. Christopher pointed out that the orange lilies were practically fluorescent in the light. It was pretty striking - all of the greens, the purple of the clematis, and then the fluorescent orange.

About an hour later, the sky went kind of golden. So golden that the lights inside the house seemed incredibly harsh in comparison to the light outside. It was as if the clouds filtering the sun were tinted with a gold foil.

From there, though, the view out the window became sepia. Not just a little, but the entire cloudy sky. The trees went darkly into silhouette, and the sky was shades of the most perfect sepia we've seen in ages.

The sepia was short-lived, however. The sky went to reds and pale rose fading to grey, and now it's grey with just the slightest light kind of at the end of our street.

We're just a week from the longest day of the year, so at 9:30, I can still see just the light below the edges of the clouds. There are certainly benefits to living in this part of the country with our weird weather.