Yesterday was what historically would be considered to be a perfect summer’s day – temperatures in the tingly 60s, breezy, and a big blue sky decorated by squirts of whipped creamy cumulous clouds. Here you see the clouds scudding over Mount Desert Island:
Here’s the view down Back Road with its woods and fields (this field already “fall-mowed”):
But all is not right in Vacationland. We need gray veils of nimbostratus clouds and their continuous, saturating rains, or maybe even the thunderheads of cumulonimbus clouds that produce significant storms. Given the dry state of our ground, however, I’d prefer several days of slow, steady rain. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on August 27, 2025.)