Finally, Some Rain

We finally got some rain yesterday - only a third of an inch - but it was SO welcome.

Thunderheads off in the distance. I checked the radar and at first it looked like any rain was going to go around us - AGAIN.

Getting closer and some rumbles of thunder.

Wow! There's some wind up there.

When the wind hit it started blowing leaves around. It was then I noticed all the yellow leaves in the cottonwood.

Storm clouds directly overhead. It would be another ten or fifteen minutes before the rain really began coming down. Water ran in the street, something we hadn't seen in ages.

After the rain, patches of heavenly blue. My old neighbor in West Des Moines, Bernice, used to say if there was enough blue to patch a pair of overalls it meant that the rain was over and the skies would clear.

This morning I was treated to a beautiful pink sunrise.

The camera seldom does justice to the intensity of the color.

A waning moon before the New Moon on the day of the total eclipse; enhanced by shredded pink clouds.

The pink is fading as two white 'eyes' peer at me. We have more rain in the forecast today and tonight. I hope we get more than a third of an inch, but we'll gratefully take anything Mother Nature gives us.