Lightning and Thunder

I got home around midnight tonight and was unloading the groceries from my car when I saw it. Flash! I thought it must have been a car rounding the corner on the road above me. I brought in my grocery bags (yes, my reusable ones) and then saw it again. Wow, it's a thunderstorm!

I put things away and then went to the back deck to see where it was coming from. My camera wouldn't even begin to capture how cool the sky looked. There's an almost full moon high in the sky, and an bank of orangy clouds in the northwest ~ with lightning flashes in them. Cool. Especially cool seeing all that and the twinkly skyline of Los Angeles at the same time. It makes me want to see a REAL thunderstorm (like the ones back east) rage through. What a sight that would be through the picture window! It's about an hour later and it's still flashing, the clouds have moved closer, and the moon is behind them.

Ok, it's late, gotta get to bed, friends coming over in the morning. I'll find a good picture to put on this tomorrow.

Goodnight!

In the Blink of an Eye

"Life runs," my friend Peter used to tell me. Today I was looking through some of the pictures on my computer and was blown away that it had been more than a year since the above picture was taken. If I had been asked yesterday when that trip to Morro Bay happened, I would have sworn it was no more than 6 months ago.

It has been a month and a half since I last posted here. I've been busy. I've changed schools and moved to a new place. The changes are good ~ the path is intriguing ~ but life runs way too fast...