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A Dramatic End to Another Stormy Day

A Dramatic End to Another Stormy Day

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It was another stultifying and stormy day. The air was thick, and downpours came and went. Eventually, though, we were gifted with some blue at sunset. It did not last long, and soon the clouds and haze returned and blessed us with this parchment sky of faded peach and yellow. The scenes at the pond were so dramatic they could have passed for something painted by Thomas Cole or Frederic Edwin Church, two of the more notable artists making up the White Mountain Artists, a subset of the Hudson River School.

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