Fall Skies: Nature’s Stained Glass Windows.

though accompanied with a drop in temperatures, the beauty of fall skies more than make up for it

The last summer here was brutal. And it wasn’t just the heat of around 110. No it was the way Spring’s blurred gray suddenly gave way to a cruel blue sky, relentless as it beat down on the land, choking the trees, sucking the water out of raging rivers and turning a lush forest into a desert.

That pick your bones clean blue sky of summer

That experience alone has turned this tropical man into one who appreciated rainfall in any form — even on a cold rainy day. I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking that this essay is going to veer towards some polemic about climate change, that it will wax lyrical about forests turning to ashes, coasts receding inland, oceans spitting out hurricanes, and glaciers melting to nothing. But fear not dear reader, nothing could be further from my mind!

Fall’s sky now stained with multi shaded clouds and fractal edges speaks to many people’s hearts

What I want to talk about is how that sky, once cruel and flat and blue, is now a gorgeous mix of white and blue and gray and shades in between. Not only that but those clouds, cruel in the chill they now spread, are curved with fractal infinities in all edges and they bounce the sunlight back and forth, mold it, really, like impetuous Greek gods.

tell me how this cannot inspire?

This sky is what inspires me to write more, to think on different angles that a story needs and a how a character may grow, to say nothing of the worlds they populate.

The heavens open up here again

Of course I know that this won’t last forever, these amazing dancing skies will soon give way to smeared gray winter skies, but for now, I shall enjoy nature's art show.