Warm, windy and stormy

02/24/12, 4 pm, looking north

So many big beautiful storm clouds--it was hard to choose one view of them. There was even a rainbow this afternoon. What else can one expect when it is 81 degrees in February?


We had wind gusts of over 40 mph that broke off tree limbs and rattled the roof. There was thunder and lightning but only about a quarter inch of rain. It was a dramatic weather day more like the lion of early March than the groundhog of February.

Sleet, snow, sunset

02/11/12, 6:20 pm, looking west

On Saturday, February 11th, the weather treated us to sleet, snow, thunder and lightning, and a dramatic sunset clearing just before dark. This mass of dark clouds lifted enough to see the last of the sunset colors in the west. It was a dramatic finish to a dramatic weather day.

After Lee

Thursday night we got an additional inch of rain, all in about an hour. The sky cleared somewhat and provided a display of distant lightning midst valleys of carved clouds. It was the most beautiful and mesmerizing display I've ever seen.


Yesterday morning, Friday September 9th, was humid and cool. Water still stood in the backyard in lower areas about an inch deep. The sky was a rich, deep blue with lovely, tall, overlapping towers of cumulus clouds.


Goodbye, Lee.