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If you think your life is going by faster and faster there is a good chance it is. Out here in Colorado our 100 Year events are coming about every 35 years now. This last week we’ve had torrential rains and unprecedented flooding dumping up to a foot of rain in some areas close by. We got 7.3″ here at the Institute and for us that is a huge amount of rain to get in 2½ days.  That’s not quite biblical or ark building rain but it is a bunch of rain.

There isn’t a lot of up side to that much rain but if there is any, it is the beautiful sunsets we get after and sometimes during one of these big weather events. This image isn’t from this weeks storm, it’s from another 100 year event that we had recently. When the cloud cover is broken and the sun begins to set while it is still raining, and the storm is in the right place just as the sun goes below the horizon, the sun’s rays will shine through the storm clouds and the valley and produce images like this. And occasionally because we live a good wholesome life here at the Institute, I will have my camera at hand when it does. Apparently it is one of the rewards you get for not smoking cigars anymore and eating all that crappy health food you’ve got to eat as you geeze out.