The photo does not do it justice. It almost looked like the sky was on fire. I pull out my camera and hold it up just as I look to my left and see four other people all holding their camera phones up doing the same thing. I snapped a few pictures playing with the light adjust to try to get the color to show up right. Rachel and I walk toward the truck to put the groceries in and I turn back to see people exiting the Smiths and stopping and pointing, all gathering in the forming line of camera phone picture takers. But when I look above the Smiths I saw another amazing sky.
The sky was a very rich cobalt blue with high contrast multi-tone orange and grey clouds. I walked over to the line of people to tell them to look behind them and they all turned with camera phones prone to capture the sight behind them. Everyone just started talking to each other at once like they knew each other and I left to walk back to the truck. Rachel was putting Elizabeth into the truck and I turned to take more pictures when a guy about my age stopped and started commenting to me on how neat the sky looked. We talked a little bit and he mentioned he was unfortunate not to have a camera phone himself. I had to break off conversation so I could help Rachel with the groceries. 
As we were driving back home I thought: Its interesting how many people we see everyday. We walk through crowds while shopping and going about our lives. We live in communities that make so much possible but its rare we actually engage ourselves in the community. It took an impressive sky to make strangers talk to each other. When its done we continue on our way and thing nothing of it. And if it was a common place occurrence we'd not even allow it to affect us. But I was grateful for the opportunity to share the sky with strangers today. Here are the photos of the Event
