Sheer Beauty! (5/25)

In the London School District, when it's particularly bad, fog delays school's start. In the mornings, you look out and wonder if it's foggy enough for the district to declare it dangerous and delay school. This is a tough call because someone will disagree. Here, smog weilds the same confusing power. Smog is nasty! When you look outside or up at the mountains at the haze of smog, you are forced to deal with the reality. It's there. It may not delay school (parents would have a fit because they value education too much and pay to send the children to private school), but it does prevent physical activity -- LIKE PE!!! Children get so upset when PE is cancelled too. Smog is bad, so RAIN is good!!!

While skies are usually clear, spotless, not even a whisp of cloud, these last few days we've had big, dark clouds overhead. Sometimes, they look like they crashed into the mountains and you can see them spilling over slopes. Other times these clouds are up high above the mountains, but dark and luminous still. Everybody has been looking up at the clouds and hoping. We only had one shower in the last few days, but people keep hoping. Now, the stage is set for the "Sheer Beauty" part of my thought. I love the mountains, and they look so different with the clouds. It's like a game of Hide-and-Seek or Peek-a-Boo! And the sunsets have been gorgeous. It's like the mountains are wearing the formal attire and are dressed to the nines!!! One picture just doesn't capture it. But here's what I've got.