Our summer Monsoon has begun, a week earlier than normal (I'm ok with that).
I was trying to get a shot of some lightning in conjunction with a late afternoon rainbow,
but the weather gods would only tease and never offer up a spectacular bolt. At least
I was treated to some spectacular skies, with this main image being the view to the north.
Both cloudscapes are merges of three exposures for HDR.

The view looking to the southwest:



And the teaser shots of the rainbow and lightning. All are pretty lame, with the last one being the least lame of the bunch.
The lightning never got close enough to make a big impact and instead remained too far off in the distance: