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This is a community thread so please add your sunrise or sunset images This is sunrise at the Grand Canyon. I chose to just do the sunrise rather than include much of the canyon because the clouds were so spectacular.

Eric couldn't do this today, so I am filling in. Eric has taken me to many of his favorite haunts in AZ and so I am going to post birds from one of his absolute favorites: The Pond at Elephant Head, which gets its name from a rock shaped like that animal in the nearby mountains. Please pile...

I spent Friday afternoon and Saturday morning at this national monument last weekend. Ajo Mountain Loop drive was not what it has been in the past. However, there were some very nice patches of wildflowers along the road from the entrance to the visitor center. Dawn before the sun rose above...

Here is a sunset I took Friday evening. I didn't get to this location until a few minutes before the sun sank below the horizon, so I didn't have time to get the sun in one of those holes in the chain cholla cactus. When you are in a hurry it seems like the sun is dropping like a flyball in a...

Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday. For some reason I was thinking it was a Monday thread like a bunch of the others I have done recently. Sedona is a fecund place for sunrises and sunsets. They don't have to be "atomic" to be beautiful because of the red rocks they compliment. Here is one...

Guy Schmickle and I went to Picacho Peak State Park near Tucson, AZ Wednesday and Thursday. I have been there many times in the spiring but have never seen a super bloom before. This one is spectacular. The poppies are cascading down the slopes of the mountain so that it looks like streams of...

Jim Fox suggested we start a sunrise/sunset thread on Sundays. So here we go. We will start with sunrise. Please pile on with your image. Sunrise at Coffee Pot rock in Sedona.

I squeezed in a trip to Anza Borrego State Park on my way home from CA. The normal peek of the season is in early - mid March. This year it was early and it certainly wasn't a super bloom. Many of the plants were already past peak and the usual hot spots had only scattered photographable...

I was on a wildflower photo trip and got trapped in Phoenix, AZ . Highway I-17 was closed back up to where I live so I couldn't get home until late afternoon yesterday. Here is an image I took with my iphone when my wife and I went to Sedona for dinner. It was improved by Topaz Gigapixel AI.

It is time to wrap up this series. I am out of special clouds to post to keep this interesting. My last effort is to post images of clouds that contribute to making an image dynamic. Here are mine. Monument Valley. Arches National Park. Sedona, AZ Bryce Canyon, UT Please pile on.

Today's topic is Tornadoes. I would doubt that many or any of you would have images associated with this phenomenon. However, please pile on with cloud or storm images of your own. This wall cloud did not produce a tornado in Illinois: Sirens were blaring indicating that there was a tornado...

I am sitting in my office, while awaiting the next storm to produce snowfall in my area. This is the coldest and wettest winter I can remember since moving here over twenty years ago. It appears that the precipitation will be snow this time, which should provide some photographic...

Eric had to be out of town, so you are stuck with me again. I'll try to keep up with his standards however tough that might be. No theme....just birds. Mandarin duck. Mallards jumping into flight.

The rainfall this last fall and winter was consistent and plentiful which bodes well for a great bloom this year providing there are no freezes to kill off plants. I have assembled some past superbloom images of places that become wildflower meccas along with the typical blooming season so you...

A few different meteorologic conditions for today. Pyrocumulus cloud: These are formed in association with forest fires. The rising smoke is full of condensation nuclei. As the smoke rises and cools it reaches the dew point and a cumulus cloud forms. This one is at Glacier National Park...

I had to go down to Phoenix today and early this morning I set up this post without the text anticipating that on the way with my wife driving I could finish it on the road. Normally I could just go to my phone and write in the text because the site would save what I had already done. But when...

For this task I am posting med-level clouds which have the prefix "alto" Altostratus: this is a layer of clouds that is thin enough to allow the sun to shine through. Altocumulus clouds: These form lines of puffy clouds. Altocumulus undulatus clouds: These look like waves because of...

This wood duck is in water as pretty as he is. It is almost hard to believe. This pond is surrounded by cabins of various colors and that is how it gets so colorful.

Eric is out of town and asked me to post this thread. Last week I was checking out ebird.org for birds in this area and found that there was a rare eurasian widgeon about 1 1/2 hours away, so my wife and I decided to check it out. We found it right away with a flock of american widgeons when...

Today we will deal with the different types of fog. Advection fog forms when warm moist air overrides a cool surface. This happens in the Midwest when there is snow on the ground and warm moist tropical air moves up from the south in the spring. It also happens along the coast of...