Skies Above

It started raining yesterday, right after we got our Christmas tree (and boy, much as I tend to want to buy from the Mom-n-Pop stores, we got the best tree we've had in years, for half of what we spent for last year's tree, from Home Depot. Go figure) and has been pouring down buckets since then. This morning we had fifteen minutes of thunderstorm so close overhead that the house rattled, the girls cringed, and a Severe Weather alert went out over TV.

It's still raining now, and the wind is still whipping the trees across the street into a considerable bowing frenzy, but the sturm-und-drang part of the program has passed by. Some lightshow.