07/13/24

 It's been two weeks ago now since the big storm.  This was just before I finally got home after waiting out the rain at the restaurant to ride my bike home.  It was also before I knew what damage the storm had brought to my yard which we are still cleaning up.  It could have been worse, my home was not damaged like many were in town.  It was even difficult to get home on a bike due to flooding and downed trees.

07/06/24

 This image is from Friday June 28 and looks deceptively lovely.  It is an image of the end of one of worst storms we have ever had in my immediate area.  We had looked at the radar and there was a very small rain cell visible so we decided to ride our bikes to dinner and then by the time we finished eating it would be out of the area.  We were very wrong.  We were stuck at the restaurant for 2 hours.  The storm grew in size and sat over my town and dumped 6.9 inches of rain at my house and collapsed a building in town and caused A LOT of tree damage among other damage.  They have decided it was straight line winds of at least 80MPH.  We are still cleaning up limb damage on our property.  

10/22/22

 It's a double digit day today!  😀  On the last day of September, it had rained in some places off to the west.  I didn't get any but it provided the view of a lovely rainbow out my office window that morning.

7/24/21

 As I was driving to and from Pennsylvania I went through a number of very heaavy rainfalls that made driving a lot of fun, not.  On the way back, in Illinois after having just gone through one in Indiana and into Illinois I saw this beautiful rainbow in the rearview mirror and had to pull over and take a shot.  It's not often I see both ends of one and a double one at that.  This is a 2 shot panoramic photo.

9/7/19

I was in Minnesota over labor day Weekend.  On Monday I was in Hawley Minnesota and in the evening there was quite the rainstorm/thunderstorm.  Afterwards there was a beautiful double rainbow.  I shot this with my phone under the eve of the house just out of the wind and rain.

1/3/19

I got this image this summer of a double rainbow.  My front yard view isn't the loveliest so I shot it at this angle with the trees instead of just buildings.  May the new year be filled with rainbows and good things.  😃

10/20/18

This was a cool sight I was treated to while driving east last weekend in the morning.  It looked like an arch or round rainbow.  The colors weren't quite as vivid as a normal rainbow but it was very neat to see and capture.

2/18/18

I usually share trains today because Sundays are for steam!  :-)  This is a different kind of mist.   A few years back, I had hiked down a lot of stairs into the Canyon of the Yellowstone to get this view of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone.  I thought it was quite worth it to be able to capture this great rainbow in the mist created from the falls.  The hike back up those 328 stairs, 500 vertical feet was pretty tiring.