Day 180 - June 29

So many choices for pictures today! There were squinchy faces from Cate at dinner time (her new favorite face to make), silly faces from Michaela to combat Cate's cuteness, a bin and piles of clothes from yet more sorting today.... and then, there was a CRAZY storm and that gave me all kinds of pictures. Even from the big camera.

Right after we put Michaela to bed, we went outside to see a giant black cloud heading in our direction. It was one of the craziest storms I've ever seen. There was blue sky, and then the edge of the storm, clearly visible, with super dark swirly clouds in the middle. The worst of it passed over us with just a cool wind, a few rumbles of thunder, and a few lightning strikes.

But then, the whole thing moved over us and we got a drenching rain and more thunder and lightning. I was so happy that held off for a while, though, so we could watch it move over us. Very cool.

This shot has very limited editing. I brightened up the whole thing just the tiniest bit, and then boosted the contrast just a little to compensate for how I couldn't really meter well in the weird light of the storm. But this is more or less what it looked like in real time.