Ridge... no ridge

I take loads of photos of this house and the ridge behind it, with the fickle weather providing dramatic backdrops. These two were taken within three hours of each other. A few minutes after the bottom pic was taken, the house was just visible against a solid bank of cloud - no mountain visible at all.
See?

Weather watching

The weather in the mountains is forever changing, but in spring there are more fluctuations in temperature and sky than normal. In 24 hours we went from warm air and blue skies to snow and icy temperatures, down to freezing overnight and frost first thing, back to a warm morning and a hot blue sky at noon. Thunder storms boil up in minutes, and you can through all the weather man's little magnetic symbols in rapid succession: hail, snow, fog, sun, scudding clouds, rain, thunder... Sometimes you get several at once, like this.