Under Alien Skies

As we ease out of Rainy Season we've been getting evening clouds, beautiful billowing cumulus towers that sometimes bring lightning, sometimes rain, but mostly just block the sunset.

Last night the clouds in the west covered the horizon from end to end. However, there was a break in the overcast directly overhead. The lowering sun cast long wavelength light on to the sides of the thunderhead above which reflected some of it straight down to us.

The result was a red light that came in under a dark sky painting the grass brunt orange and the houses deep coral. The trees, everything that poked above the horizon, were silhouetted and other shadows went stark black. I can imagine a half-terraformed Mars, still mostly desert with it's matching sky, looking much like this.