Via the comments:
Come on man, you tell us you took photos, but then you don’t show them. Where’s the photos?
Photo 1: That ain’t sunset… it was mid afternoon on a sunny day just minutes before. It’s blurry because I didn’t have long to fiddle with camera settings. It was rolling up on me like a freight train.
Photo 2: This is the clear “inviting sky” to which I fled. It was only “tame” in comparison. I’m rusty with my weather knowledge but I’d guess a “cumulus” that wants to be a thunderhead got enough energy at the base until it just plain busted through a layer of air that was minding its own business above it. There were several of these and once they penetrated the flat layer they started getting tall fast. Lotta’ energy in the sky that afternoon.
Nature is awesome, in the original sense of that word.
Kurt
Bueno. Gracias.