summer storms

We've had several rainstorms go through this past week. On Tuesday night we watched out the picture window in our bedroom as the mountain/desert scape was lit up again and again by flashes of lightning. Friday morning, shortly after I took this photo the sky opened up and poured down sheets of wet over the parched desert soil. Again yesterday afternoon the winds howled and the clouds let loose buckets of cool wet moisture. We have gone back and forth between opening up the windows and doors to draw in the Michigany-like air and then quickly closing everything back up and turning on the air conditioner when the sun breaks through and turns all that cool wetness into hot sticky steam.