I thought it would be fun to take pictures of Cascade sunsets from above to get more comfortable with using my drone. For eight consecutive days, I flew my DJI drone up to an altitude of 100 feet from my backyard. The mountains featured in these photos are approximately 26 miles away, as the crow flies.

These pictures show several volcanoes that are a part of Oregon’s Cascade Mountain Range. I recently featured aerial pictures of them from a closer perspective in another post.

Hope you enjoy these images of our spectacular skies near Bend, Oregon!

Colorful Cascade sunsets

The first photo shows a fiery sky. These are more commonly seen in the winter months around here.

The second photo shows a pale yellow background with the clouds floating over the mountains edged in pink.

Blue sky sunsets

The third photo shows a mostly clear sky. There appears to be a haze of smoke that could be from one of our prescribed burns in local forests. These controlled fires help prevent bigger fires.

The fourth photo shows another clear sky.

The fifth photo shows yet another clear sky. This time I took the photo right as the sun was setting over the mountains.

The next photo shows… uh, maybe we should pause for musical interlude. This song, Blue Sky & The Painter by Bastille, is one of my current favorites and it’s about blue skies.

Why did I include an interlude? Because there were more days without a single cloud in the sky when the sun set!

The sixth photo shows a clear day as the sun sets.

The seventh day shows, you guessed it, another sunny clear day.

Based on these photos, is it really true that Bend, Oregon gets 300 days of sunshine a year? Nope. However, we do have 250-260+ days a year that are clear or mostly clear.

Stormy Cascade sunsets

The eighth day shows, HURRAY!, clouds as a storm was moving in. A thick, dark cloud floated ominously over the snow-covered peaks.

The Oregon Cascade Range gets quite a bit of snow each winter. Mount Bachelor (shown on the left in these photos), as I stated in another post, gets over 400 inches of snow a year.

I may try taking sunrise pictures for a future post. I just hope that if I do, the clouds will cooperate. 😉

Weekend Sky (WS)

Ragtag Daily Prompt (RDP) – Float

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