Finally it Rained in Texas

A great cloudscape

Congratulations! Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in the “The Skyscapes” group on Fine Art America — You are invited to post your featured image to the featured image discussion thread as a permanent place to continue to get exposure even after the image is no longer on the Home Page.

Mike Dawson, I am honored to be featured again in 1000 to 1999 Views. Thank you for choosing "Finally it Rained in Texas."

One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 Views on One Image Group's Special Features Nominations For Promotion #25 . Please help your fellow artists by visiting and passing on the love to another artist in the the 1000 Views on One Image Group....L/F/Tw

Lovely image Connie. The colours are stunning and the detail spot on. My Special Features Nomination in the 1000 Views On 1 Image Group. Wendy

Gods Art, beautiful. Congratulations on the feature.

Beautiful image!

Beautiful Connie! Congrats on your Featured Art for the Week in Abstract Moods! l/f

Tanya Lozano, what an honor to have this image chosen as Image of the Week on the homepage of Abstract Moods! Thank you so much!!!

Congrats on your feature!

Dear Connie-what an uplifting image... thank you. Congratulations on your Featured Art for the Week in the Abstract Moods group! v,./f./tweet

Congrats!

congrats on your feature, Connie! well done!

Congrats Connie on your "FEATURED ART for THE WEEK" with this image on the "Abstract Moods" group homepage! f/l

Congratulations on your Featured Art for the Week in the Abstract Moods :) l/f

Nice! I know how that is - having grown up in Texas! Congrats -

Congratulations on your Featured Art for the Week in the Abstract Moods group! v,./f./tweet

Congratulations on your Featured Art for the Week in the Abstract Moods group! LF

My thanks to this morning's buyer from Altus, Oklahoma. May you enjoy your 10.5" x 14" print for many years to come. Oklahoma has shared much drought pain alongside Texas, so may this picture be a special blessing.

Hi Connie, Congratulations on your sale!...L

No, Delilah,I had not heard that. But it's not hard to believe, given all the losses and hardship. We were all looking for some hope, and on the morning this image was shot in Houston, we finally had a glimmer of hope. Beautiful!

Ah, Houston--yes, that does make sense. Houston and the Dallas area did get more rain, probably enough to recover from the drought, unlike 75 percent of the state. Did you know it was officially rated a worse drought than even the one during the Dust Bowl? Oh, well--this is still a gorgeous image. Here's to more rain for all of us!

So glad you like this image, Delilah. I simply passed along information heard in Houston. It's quite possible we have had more rain here than in Round Top, given the distance between the two. It is also quite possible that you are technically correct, and that even experts can differ.

Love this image, Laura! However . . . I must take exception to your comment that enough rain fell in the fall of 2013 to cause the meteorologists to proclaim the drought as being officially over. They did not. As a matter of fact, we are still in the grip of that drought, and have been ever since the beginning of 2010. Austin climatologists said only last month that we would need a good rain once a week EVERY week for the next 6 months to erase the drought, and as he said, we know that isn't going to happen. (Although hopes are high for a El Nino-induced rainy fall, winter and spring for 2014-15.) I hate to be argumentative at the same time I compliment such a lovely piece of art, but I simply could not let this piece of misinformation pass. So sorry!

Thank you, Laura. The losses have been staggering, but we're in much better shape this year--and everyone's hoping it will continue. You won't hear anyone complain here about a rainy day!