Sunbeams and Sunsets in September

I sure saw some pretty sunbeams the other morning on my way home from work, the morning of Sept 11th, at first they started out rimming the edges of a pretty cloud above me just south of St Louis….

0911 Clouds and Beams

…by the time I reached St Clair, I had to pull over just west of the scalehouse and shoot what looked like a stairway to heaven….

0911 Sunbeam Stairway Early AM 2

0911 Sunbeam Stairway Early AM

…one evening the week before, I had driven out to the end of Highway WW, north of Sullivan, to a neat pond that often gives me great reflections of sunset clouds and didn`t disappoint me then either….

0902 Erni Road Pond 2

0902 Erni Road Pond

0902 Cattails Near Pond

…and while standing there waiting for the clouds to deepen in color and hue, I looked up above and saw the moon brightly shining up high in the skies….

0902 Moon Above Sunset

…as I was driving back home, the very next valley to the south, was filled with a low hanging blanket of fog in a field full of cattle, with the sky filled with the soft glow of sunset…I stopped in the middle of the highway to record the moment….

0902 Hwy WW Early Fog & Cows

0902 Hwy WW Early Fog & Cows 2