Now that the bleak skies of winter are gone, it’s time to enjoy the variety and beauty of North Dakota’s skies. I looked up this weekend while driving my little boys around with the roof open. I keep a spare point-n-shoot camera handy in the vehicle most of the time, so I simply pointed it straight up while stopped in a parking lot downtown.

Later in the evening, when the little fellas were tucked away in their cribs, I was on my way home from an after-hours recording session and saw similar clouds with a much redder backdrop. I stopped along the top of Hillside Park to get a shot of the color just before the sun dropped over the horizon for good, taking all that red with it.

What a difference a few hours makes, eh?