Lightning

Someone (not me) managed to get a picture of the lightning we were having around here. This picture was taken looking at Alki (Alk-eye) Avenue. Alki is across the water from Seattle, and you can see downtown once you get onto the strip.

This was more of the cloud-to-ground lightning.

Looks like the storms are set to pass by Thursday, although we didn't get anything up in Shoreline either yesterday or this morning. At least it's so wet here usually that we didn't have to worry about fire.

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Thunderstorms!

We are finally getting some rain over here (it's been a couple weeks, seems like forever), accompanied by a bit of thunder and lightning. We almost never get those, so this is a real treat. I saw a pretty good lightning burst earlier, although I think it was pretty far away. I took a couple more pictures of my lilies right as the rain was beginning.

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