September 10, 2026 • Raytown, Missouri Before the day asks anything of us, there is a small space between darkness and morning. Nothing has happened yet. Nothing has been decided. And perhaps we don’t need it to be. 6:45 AM • Raytown, Missouri The day began in deep blue. The trees were almost completely silhouetted…

September 9, 2026 • Lee’s Summit, Shawnee Mission, Lenexa, Kansas City & Raytown There are days when change announces itself slowly. You can see one thing beginning to give way to another, but there is still enough light around the edges to make you wonder which one will win. Today began that way. 12:55 PM…

  ☁️ September 6, 2026 You Can Change and Still Be You Raytown, Missouri • Kansas City, Missouri • Mission, Kansas Some days I look up and find one particular cloud that catches my attention. Other days, the entire sky seems determined to remind me just how quickly it can change. Today was one of…

  August 30, 2026 | Raytown & Independence, Missouri Written Across the Blue Some days the sky changes by the hour. Other days, it gives you one beautiful chapter and leaves the rest unwritten. August 30 was one of those days. I only photographed the sky twice, and the pictures were taken just four minutes…

🌕 Blood Moon: The Night the Moon Turned Red August 27, 2026 | Raytown, Missouri | 11:30 PM Tonight, it wasn’t the clouds that made me stop and look up. It was the Moon. And for once, I wasn’t standing beneath the sky alone. My daughter was beside me. The Moon we see so often…

  August 24, 2026 | Raytown, Missouri Perhaps the Sky Never Wonders If It Is Enough 7:45 PM I only stopped for the sky once today, but perhaps once was enough. By evening, the clouds had broken apart into soft pieces scattered across the blue. Some were still cool and gray, while others had caught…

  The Storm Was Gone, but the Sky Remembered The story of August 19 actually began before the calendar officially turned the page. Late the night before, severe thunderstorms swept across the Kansas City area. Lightning flickered almost constantly inside the clouds, wind pushed through the trees, and the sky that had been so delicate…

 ☁️ The Sky Changed Without Asking Permission August 18, 2026 | Raytown, Missouri Some days the sky gives you one story. Today, it seemed determined to give me an entire book. When I first started taking pictures this afternoon, the clouds were heavy and restless. Deep grays rolled across the sky, layered upon one another…

 ☁️ The Sky Changed Its Mind August 17, 2026 | Kansas City & Raytown, Missouri Some days the sky seems to settle on a mood and keep it. August 17 was not one of those days. Over the course of just a few hours, I watched the sky move through completely different versions of itself.…

  🌈 Looking Back: Where the Rain and the Light Met May 14, 2023 | 6:12 PM | Kansas City, Missouri Every once in a while, I like to wander backward through my photographs and visit a sky I almost forgot I had seen. This one takes me back to May 14, 2023, and it…