::ALL WE WERE MISSING WAS THE SPICE::

Saturday, due to 50-mile-per-hour winds, Dallas suffered a crazy, sky-altering dust storm. Austin and I walked directly from the theater (we'd just seen Reno 911: Miami) into the parking lot. Wow, I thought, my eyes aren't adjusting like they usually do. That was because the sky was ruddy with west Texas dust!

Ever the "capture odd sky phenomena" rangers, we headed directly to the roof of a building in east Deep Ellum to take some pictures. We couldn't believe what we saw; the air was Martian:


And I don't know whether it was a filtration done by the dust or simply a color-opposition eye trick, but while the sun was russet-colored, the sunlight appeared somehow bluish.

Here I am on Mars:


And here's the view of downtown from the rooftop:


You can see more of our photos here and here.