nice capture, it's crazy out there tonight

Great shot! I got too many of those pesky trees to capture those kind of things at my house.

A thought......you could photoshop an oil rig in to the scene and send it around the country!!

Outstanding! And Wallace has a good idea ... think of it as the pixelated version of the whispering game Gossip. You could photoshop a Fire Ant Gazette mug into the photo!

I took almost the exact same picture (except I wasn't lucky to capture the lightning strike). But location wise and everything... (you're just a few blocks north). I think we're near neighbors.

It was a beautiful thunderstorm, and I'm glad the rest of the city got a good rain, but where I'm at we received off and on drops.

But hey ya can't complain. 1.01 inches at the airport... we just nearly doubled our total rainfall for the year. And I didn't even think they predicted rain for today?

Let's pray for more of these summer storms! (More rain may keep some of that construction dust out off your yard)

Thanks for the great pics! I'm going to share them. We were enjoying a walk by the pond on our way to the second one when we had to head back. Crazy weather! I love it. Also got a visit from one of the scorpions relatives in our house this week. Which exterminator did you use?

Thanks, guys. It's just another proof of the old say, sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

Wallace, I photoshopped that light pole into the picture. Was that not dramatic enough? ;-)

Bert, the rain was wonderfully unexpected. And wouldn't you know it? That morning I had taken my wife's car to be washed...for the first time in at least 3 months!

Sherry, sorry to hear about your uninvited guest. We're using Boydstun Pest Control. They charge about $70 for a quarterly treatment and they seem to be very thorough and professional.

Beautiful shot, Eric!

You would have gotton some gorgeous pictures at the drive-in. Often the lightening split and would strike on each side of the screen at the same time.

Unbelievably beautiful, I wished I had taken my own camera out there.

Thanks, Janie. I'm pleased with it.

You would have gotton some gorgeous pictures at the drive-in.

I'll bet that's right. You guys had a widescreen view of all the action!

Nice.

Wow, Eric. That's really a dramatic shot. Well done!

I shouldn't make comments late at night, when I can't see. It looked like a wide-based tornado---not a cloud burst. Which is why I thought a swirling FA Gazette mug would be amusing.

Deborah, I thought the same thing...about it looking like a really wide tornado, that is. I'm not sure I've ever seen one so close and isolated.

While a tornado would have made for a more dramatic photo, I much prefer a more mundane subject. ;-)

Lucky strike!

That is so spectacular! You should enter that in some contest.

Agreed. That really is a fabulous shot.