111 degrees. Can you BELIEVE that? It’s been REALLY hot here most of July and into August. We had many days in a row that were well over 100.

The sunrise was exceptionally beautiful this morning. I loved how bright and vibrant the colors were. Again, there must be a lot of debris in the air. The custom cutters are thick as mosquitoes here right now – cutting all of the grain which make the air very heavy with …

The moon color was SO PRETTY last night. It’s not quite a “Harvest Moon” yet, but its getting there. You can certainly tell there was a lot of dust in the air.

Emily took a picture of this cloud on our way home from town one day. It really stood out amongst the other clouds because it was so much lower and the sun seemed to only shine on it! It was beautiful.

This is the mess we arrived home to after the Sunday evening graduation party. Fortunately, we didn’t have any serious damage. A large tree branch fell over onto the powerline that goes from the road to our house. The weight of it knocked this power pole over. It snapped off …

We’ve had some spectacular sunsets this year! This is one of many reasons I LOVE living in the country… hmmmm… I’ve always wanted to do a Thursday Thirteen maybe I should just do that right now while I’m thinking of it.

We’ve woken up to fog several mornings. In this photo you can really see the sun trying to poke through the fog. It seemed to light up the entire sky!

We LOVE to photograph sunsets.

There wasn’t much rain in the storm that passed over, but there was enough to leave these puddles in the driveway.

Our storms usually come from the West. Lee was here one day when a storm looking just like this one came up. They ate and left quickly to head back to their hotel… right INTO the storm I might add! Back to now…. we watched this storm brew on the …