Plains Vigil

My son (background) and I continued to wait as this storm cell billowed to life. The image looks west from E0132 Road, about .2-mile west of Highway 324, about 16.3 miles northwest of Boise City, Oklahoma. Despite the fact that this road runs for miles, its entrance from Highway 324 contains a gate. Cattle roam free on the open land. Time and date here was 2:46 pm CDT, Monday, May 16, 2016.

This image looks northwest and was shot at 70mm focal length. The zoomed view shows dark cumulus clouds and mesa-like ground features at 3:00 pm. The dark area at the top of this image is the line of clouds seen at lower right in the first image.

A group of storm chasers from Texas parked a short distance west of us just after 3:00 pm, and are here observing a mother cow and her calf which were roaming the area. The two cows were getting their looks in too. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.