As I left home this morning, I saw a gray blanket of clouds stretching north and south and as far east as I could see. To the west they extended to within a few hundred yards of the mountains. Based on what I could see of the mountains, I guess the clouds were at 8000 feet. And the sun was shining brightly above the clouds so the upper parts ofthe mountains were in bright sunshine. As I drove down the Front Range, I kept seeing the bright rim of light between the clouds and their shadow on the mountains.

Pity I didn’t have my camera handy to snap pictures out the car window while driving at 75 MPH. I should have called Elaine and told her to check it out.

When I got down into the Springs, the cloud cover was breaking up and the crepuscular rays were shining through.

Not quite like the other day where the clouds were laying at 7000 feet and I left in the bright sunlight and drove down into the cloud cover.