Lately the weather here has been creepy. It started Halloween morning when I woke up to find the scariest looking sky of my entire life. As I left for work at sunrise (yes, I have to leave for work at sunrise, and see it most days of the year), the sky was an eerie shade of violet with orange streaks. Everything was flooded with a grayish, glowing light. I kind of felt scared.
It was cloudy and cold most of Halloween day, and there was a pretty strong wind that blew most of the leaves off of the trees and making everything look bare and boney.
Then it snowed.
It didn't snow much, and it didn't stick, but we had scattered flurries throughout the weekend. Election day was gray with a steady drizzle. I left my classroom at 1:00 p.m. and it looked as if it were dusk, it was so dark. I wondered if it was something portentious, like that scene in Julius Cesar the night before the assissins enact their diabolical plot, when fire rains down from the sky.
Then Last night it snowed enough to actually stick and I woke up to a world covered by the most beautiful white blanket. Everything looked so clean and bright.
We have a saying here in Utah that if you don't like the weather, wait. It'll change in a few minutes. It's kind of true. We have the most extreme weather of anywhere I've ever been. I've seen it go from temperatures in the high 90's to snowing in a 24 hour period, and I'm kind of anxious about this winter. Last winter was the gentlest I've seen, and the snowiest. It was textbook- started snowing the first of September and stopped first of March. Usually winter is not so kind here, and I've seen it snow in June, followed by weeks of flooding and tornados.
However, aside from the schizophrenic climate, I still maintain that Utah has the most beautiful skies I've ever seen. Especially out here by the lake where we can still occasionally see the stars and where the air is always clean and clear. I've been taking a lot of pictures lately trying to document that, and they don't really do the sky justice, but here are some of my favorites.
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