Lightening

O my! We had a great show last night!! The thunder was so loud it felt at times like the house was going to shatter apart. The lightening so big and bright, ripping across the sky. It just as scary as it was beautiful. Also we got a dash, and I do mean a dash, of rain. Big fat cold drops coming down in sporadic sprinkles. There I was out in the humid heat, leaning against the garage door trying to get my first ever lightening shots. Like an idiot wanting to get struck by lightening. Instead of peering out the windows like my kids and everyone else on the street. I loved the adrenaline rush immensely though and will most likely do it again. The eerie silence before the brilliant bright strike and thundering crash, makes every hair on your body stand on end in anticipation. Simply amazing. These are just a few that I captured before the very loud and powerful storm rushed on past us. I hope you like them as much as I enjoyed taking them. _B

  

This one reminds me of the Poltergeist movie

  

This is the original picture, below is an edited version

 

Dust and Clouds

So much for my sparkly clean pool! Cleaned and filled and bright blue. Perfect for the babies to play in. However, much to their dismay and mine. By the time mom and dad got it cleaned out, re-blown up and filled the blue sunny skies turned dark and dusty. A thunderstorm was coming and it brought a big dust storm with it. So much for the clean pool! My girls in bathing suits watched from the patio, later from out the backdoor window, the dust cover everything in a cm of dirt and the wind blow their pool toys all over the yard. We were all pretty bummed out. But I got some pretty cool cloud shots and a few of the dust cloud coming in. Enjoy _B

Monsoon

I took these during my first monsoon season here in Arizona. I didn't grow up in a place where we had thunder and lightening all the time, maybe once or twice a summer. So I am always mesmerized by the clouds and colors of the monsoon season. The contrast is breath taking. So I used my old canon point and shoot to get these lovely shots (so please excuse the quality). My camera was later stolen just after 4th of July, loosing all my littlest daughters first 4th pics. Luckily hubby let me upgrade to a better camera, because less then 6m later we were pregnant again. So I hope you enjoy my oldies, while I pray that these puffy white clouds outside my windows get gray and angry... xo_B

I just LOVE the way you can see the rain coming down..
 

The sun is actually setting behind me.. The sun is reflecting back into the clouds as the storm rolls in ...