June 6th Storm

I have found that one of my very favorite things to do is stand outside before a storm comes and take pictures.  One of these days I'll take pictures of the beautiful blue South Dakota sky.  These are pictures from the June 6th storm.  We've had a lot of storms lately, so watch for more amazing pictures.  Amazing in my opinion...

May Fire at the Neighbors

One night, back in May, we were giving my brother and nephew a tour of the kitchen construction.  One of the boys casually commented that the neighborhood was on fire.  He reminded me of the time my brother, Dirk, calmly told Dad that the toaster was on fire.  Out the door we went to see that, indeed, the neighborhood was on fire.  It must have been a planned fire based on the number of people watching.  We got quite a show that night.

See fire truck dangerously close to fire??  Ha

May 20th Storm

If you are new to my blog you will find out that I LOVE storms.  I will post many pictures during the spring and summer of the amazing storms we have here in the Northern Hills.  On May 20th we had a cool storm.  It looked (and smelled) like hail so we put the vehicles in the barns.  Surprise, surprise - the hail amounted to nothing worth talking about.  I think we'll go ahead and put the vehicles in the barn every storm!

 This cloud was looking very suspicious.  It did look like funnel for a bit, but by the time I got the camera it decided to behave. 

 Those are HUGE rain drops!

 I really love when you can see a storm moving across the sky.

Rain to the north and clear(ish) skies to the south.

That appears to be a wall of rain!

April Snow

Snow in April is not that unusual.  What is crazy about the snow from April 19th was how big the snowflakes were.  These pictures don't do it justice.  You can catch glimpses of how big in a couple of the corners of the pictures.