The Lord blessed us with another gorgeous rainbow yesterday afternoon.

July 10th Sunset

Yesterday afternoon was a stormy one in Middle Tennessee. After all the rain passed we were blessed with this pretty sunset. It was almost 8 pm when I took these. They are kind of dark, but I love the dark silhouettes of the trees and surroundings against the red sky.

I took this picture during a thunderstorm on March 17th. I was
hoping to catch some forked lightning, but instead caught this
lightning flash off in the distance. I took this picture from my
back porch.

Stormy Day!

Yesterday was a day of severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado
warnings across Middle Tennessee. We had lots of heavy rain, winds
and some ominous clouds that rolled through our neighborhood. There
were a couple of rotating thunderstorm clouds spotted near Carthage,
which is ten miles to the north of us. All in all I would say we dodged a
bullet yesterday as we were in a high risk for tornadoes. The scary thing
is tornado season hasn't even begun yet.

"Don't Know Why, There's No Sun Up in The Sky Stormy Weather." ~ Harold Arlen

Yesterday was an unusually warm winter day in Middle
Tennessee. When we have temps in the 60's in January,
you know something is going to happen. The clouds started
building up late in the afternoon. Tornado watches and
thunderstorm watches were issued.


Then the storms came. In this picture you can see hail
falling. That's when it got scary.


We got some pea sized hail.


The rain was very heavy. The gutter on our backporch was
clogged and the water was coming down was like a waterfall.
We had a thunderstorm warning in Smith County, but no
tornado warnings, thank goodness!


The storms moved on east toward Cookeville where they
did have a tornado warning.

Tomorrow I'll be posting pictures of the double rainbow
that we had. It was gorgeous!