Sailor Take Warning

This was the very first view of the sunrise that I had on this morning. The sun was the color of blood as it rose. When I saw the sky lit with red light, I remembered that old saying, "red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky in the morning, sailor take warning."

And indeed, later in the afternoon, we did get an amazing storm. It was kind enough to wait until after I arrived home from work. The sky grew dark and the winds whipped up, and then the rains came pelting down. The hot, humid air that was like a sauna got swept away, and a much more comfortable and cooler weather system moved in behind it.

You won't find too many oceans or great lakes in central Pennsylvania, so the tune to accompany this photo that predicts the coming of stormy weather is a song about a famous shipwreck on Lake Superior. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald went down on November 10, 1975, losing all 29 hands on deck. The song about that event is one of Gordon Lightfoot's most famous: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.