LOL!!
Not to belittle your anguish MD, but welcome to my world...The third picture is what I see out of my computer room window 320 days a year....Merry ol' England...Honestly, and this is no joke..when it is "sunny" here, that means there is a slight haze of blue/gray in the sky...Clear skies are essentially non-existent here...
Whenever I visit home, (now NC coast), I sometimes stare at the blue sky for hours and hours...my family thinks Im crazy, like Ive been in a cave all my life.....It really looks SOOO strange to me now...10 years of it to be exact...
And ditto, the second pic is breathtaking!!