08/08/2022
I live for sunrises and sunsets like these.
Thursday was a gray, hot and muggy day in northwestern Vermont, but as the day began to draw to a close, some gaps appeared in the thick cloud cover over the Adirondacks. Still, a heavy curtain of dense clouds just above the horizon seemed poised to ruin the possibility of a good sunset — yet when my wife and I headed out to run a few errands shortly before dusk, I threw my drone in the car. "Just in case," I thought. "Probably won't need it." The time of sunset came and went with so-so color in the sky. And a few minutes later, there I was in a supermarket in South Burlington when I noticed through the windows a dramatic afterglow creeping into the clouds. I abandoned my wife to finish the shopping while I dashed outside, past a guy sitting on a bench and enthusiastically describing into his phone the intense sunset developing overhead, and quickly launched my drone into the heavens. That last minute "what the heck" decision to bring the drone along felt like one of the better thoughts I've had in a while!
