Drought

Last week I had a rare opportunity to spend some time alone with my camera. I went to a local park, and was awed by what is happening. We have had trace amounts of rain for the last two months. I don't even know how behind we are on rain, but last I heard it was 5 inches, and that was probably a month ago.

Look at those roots, reaching for the water:

The shore of this little pond has receded by several feet!

yucky!

at least I was able to find something growing!

lightening

i got a picture of lightning! i know it's not phenomenal lightning, but it's my first time so i'm excited!

i sat on my front porch on wednesday night as the tornado sirens were going off (sorry mom),
and took about 25 pictures of the sky, just to get this one:

a close up of the same picture:

and a few of the storm rolling in, getting darker and scarier:

i don't know if you can tell from the trees, but apparently we had like 70mph winds:

there ended up being 5 tornadoes in our area, but they were all to the south of us.