Painted Sky over Crex Meadows

Crex Meadows Wildlife Area in Grantsburg, Wisconsin is a special place.  My main reason for loving it is because it provides habitat for sandhill cranes, which not only nest there over the summer but they also gather there on their way south in the fall.  Every autumn several thousand cranes congregate here and can be seen in the marshes and meadows all throughout the wildlife area.  There is also some beautiful scenery to be found.  Like the scene shown in this photo, taken just outside the rest area in the northern part of the wildlife area.  We had stopped at the rest area to use the bathroom after spending the morning watching and photographing the cranes.  When we left the rest area the sky was filled with these fascinating clouds that looked like they had been put there purposefully by a painter's brush.  You know me, I couldn't resist stopping and making a photograph :-)