Mega Thunderstorms

I woke up this morning to beautiful blue skies. The mountains had a few low hanging clouds passing across their slopes but other than that there were no clouds in the sky.
This was not to last however...Soon the black amonous clouds would appear over those mountains and with the darkness came the lightning...thunder...hail and rain! Not just a little rain...but to use the old saying it came down in buckets.
So we spent most of the days sitting on the patio until the wind starting kicking up and/ began to blow the rain in on us. Then it was time to retreat to the inside. 
We love to sit outdoors when we are in a climate that allows that. When the weather gets too cool or too hot then we have to go where we are comfortable. This is why we like living in Colorado in the hot summer. 
We are up a little more than 8,000 feet so the temps up here are about 30 degrees cooler than 600 hundred feet. Where it is 90 at the lake where our RV port is we are sitting here in 60 degree temps.
Today we are heading up to Creede Colorado to see the 4th of July events that they are holding up there. Last night South Fork had their fireworks celebration. After the rain had moved on we heard what sounded like 105 Howitzers firing down range! We went outside to see if we were under attack. That is when we saw the beautiful fireworks display coming from the mountains to the southeast of us. What a show they put on. 
Kris wanted to get his own fireworks but that was not going to happen. He would just have to settle with the county approved shows going on. 
What a wonderful time we are having with the cool temps...the 4th celebration...and being together as a family...

Somewhere in Time