Flame clouds

After a day of miserable drizzle, the sun surprisingly showed up at 7pm and set behind the Olympics at around 8pm. The glow of the sun lit up the entire sky, and turned clouds into flames. Maybe that's why in the Chinese culture we call them "Flame Clouds". 

I haven't seen such beautiful clouds for years because of environmental pullution. The last memory was when I was at elementary school. Our Chinese teacher took us out to watch flame clouds after school and told us fairy tales about them. Just when we were busy telling each other:
"oh, look, the cloud looks like a horse"
"I can see a phenix"
"It looks like a chicken to me"
...
 the teacher spoiled our excitement by annoucing our homework for the day- write a story about watching flame clouds. Bummer! We never understood why we had to put down every experience in words.

I just remeber an old saying about weather: Red sky at night: shepherd's delight. Red sky in the morning: shepherd's warning.  Delight or not. We will know the result in a few hours.