The week has been an insufferable heat wave – impossible to think of anything else unless living in a bubble of constant air conditioning (which I do not).
For days a thunderstorm was threatened, promised.
I hoped for it, prayed for it, sweating away the nights on the couch, unable to sleep.
Finally today it arrived.
The clouds announced trouble coming.
Winds blew furniture and branches everywhere.
The tree in the backyard split in two, crashing into the neighbour’s back yard.
The cat huddled under the bed as lightning lit up the dark sky and thunder crashed around us.
I felt like Dorothy, looking out the windows, watching, waiting.
But in half an hour it was all over, the rain stopped, the clouds passed on by and the sun even came out, no longer a searing enemy, but just gently lighting the wet plants, the cool sidewalks, the last moments of the day…
Weekly Photo Challenge – Fresh
follow your nose 
Lovely. Heat wave here too. We have had thunderstorms several days in a row so at least the plants aren’t in distress but it just keeps heating back up again.
Oh isn’t that frustrating, when the storm doesn’t bring cool relief… Today it is still cool, and for the first time in a week I was able to actually sleep! I am pleased as punch 🙂
That’s wonderful. It is supposed to break here in another day or so. Can’t wait!
Such lush and sumptuous photos. Relief from the heat.
Hey you! Aren’t you on the road, off on vacation? Thanks so much for stopping in… xx
Such awesome photos! Oh how I miss a good thunder storm! We just don’t get them here…
Oh my goodness, where are you? Can’t remember… There is something about the drama of a summer thunderstorm that is so thrilling, I agree. Though the tree down in the back yard is a bit of a night mare. 😦
We’re north of Seattle. But after having lived in the mid-west and back East for most to my life, I SO miss storms!
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I’m impressed by your photo gallery and your storytelling!
thanks to your nose for finding my DETROIT BLUES:
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/detroit-blues/
Thanks Frizztext.
Kat,
You make the Toronto sky almost look as stunning as the Montreal skyline.
Le Clown
Funny, I was just looking at the calendar and flight prices, since I finish my job early next week, and there is half a tree lying in the part of the back yard that is not filled with backhoes and cement mixers and (very fine-looking) construction men, and I’m thinking it might be a good time to take a little trip out of town, and wondering where to go…. But Montreal is so passé.
Kat
Kat,
So, so passé…
Le Clown
Beautiful images and your text brought me back to the impossibly stiffling summers of New York years ago.. Thank you for sharing your talent and following my blog.
Yes, it is much like the oppressive heat of an NYC summer.
Following your blog is my pleasure – I wanted to comment on what a vividly heart-rending About page you had written, but settled simply for a follow.
Grateful thanks.
Nice take on the challenge 🙂
Thanks so much!
Love your raindrop shot!
Thanks Tina!! New macro lens 🙂
Great shots!!
Thank you!
These photos are exquisite, and you are a very good storyteller.
Thanks Naomi! I seem to be compelled to give context to photos – educated in film, I suppose.
Awesome pictures! It has been hot here in Kansas too, but we also got a break in the form of rain over the weekend.
Oh my goodness, I bet the heat in Toronto has nothing on Kansas!