Same View, Different Days

I was just looking at some of the photos I had on Kodak Gallery (because I'd sadly found out they'd be shutting down in a couple months).

Of course, I found a few more photos from when we lived in New Mexico (in my favorite house), and wanted to share the (most beautiful backyard) view of the Sacramento Mountains (in Alamogordo, NM) that I'd had on two separate days. (At least, I'm pretty sure, without going and checking, that I haven't shared these two particular ones, yet.)

This is the "regular" view from our back yard.

And here's the "foggy" view from our back yard.

Can you believe the difference?!

In the top photo, clouds would roll in, and perhaps a thunderstorm would hover near the mountains (not always making it to our house), then dissipate, leaving crisp, clear blue skies.

In the bottom photo (late summer), clouds had moved in, and we'd actually gotten much needed rain in our neighborhood. After the rain stopped (but while everything was still wet), some clouds had settled into this "valley" area behind our back yard just west of the mountain range. I'd gotten a photo before the arid landscape sucked up the remaining moisture and the clouds disappeared.