My favorite kind of day...

Since we live in a place that is sunny almost every day of the year, yesterday was a rare day, especially for summer, where it was cloudy and rainy. (Well, it was really sunny until I was about halfway through my route, that's where I took these pictures of the storm moving in, with my phone.)

The first one is on the first street I have on this one section of my route, where the streets all run parallel, and are all cul de sacs, running East and West. Each street took me about 5 minutes or less, and there are a total of 6 streets.

This second picture is 3 streets later, and you can not even see the mountains anymore because of the rain.

On the next street after this one, I was sitting at a box when I saw the flash of the lightning, at exactly the same time that the thunder cracked so loud, sounding like it was directly above me, my heart jumped into my throat. I have never felt so close to a storm before, and it wasn't even raining on me yet. Just imagine how loud thunder can sound when your sitting in a big metal box with nothing to muffle the sound.
The last picture was on the last street that I have on that part of my route. Just two streets after the second picture, that's how fast our storms move here. I didn't wind up getting more than a few sprinkles, even on the last part of my route which was even closer to the area where it looked like it was raining.

When I say that it's rare, I mean it's rare to get rain during the day in the summer. We get monsoon storms for a couple of months where it will rain every night for a week, but that's usually not really helpful during the hottest days.

I have gotten pictures of the monsoon late it the day. Last year I was leaving Wal-Mart to come home and I got this picture...

If I was only a better photographer....