Moving things around in the barn to prep for Holiday Photos, walk by the back window that faces west. The curtain is drawn, but I can see red hues sneaking in the sides. A pullback to the curtain and the sky is on fire. Not 5 minutes before I was outside shooting snow on a bench, for today’s dailypic. It was drizzling and raw, nothing special, but made sense for the day. Then the sky put on a show. I grab the drone, no memory card, internal memory is full, maybe room for one shot. Three batteries, all under 10%, been slacking. Knowing this sky will not last long, I send it up anyway, the controller is screaming at me… battery low forced landing will begin, over and over, before I am 3 feet off the ground. I get 100 feet, I snap this one shot, and I land. In minutes, the show is gone, back to gray and blah. For a moment, the gray, snow, rain, cold, raw day was pretty. Orginal pick for the day below. Would have been called “Ready or Not.”

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