Though there has been rain this season there haven't been many thunderstorms, the kind of skies-darkening, wind-whistling tempests that for some of us are part of summer. Yesterday's storm made up for it. Trees bent from the wind, branches fell, hail did, too. It didn't last long but it was dramatic.
In the end, we were left with a mess to clean up ... but much of it is already in the bin.