Where's a camera when you need one?

First of all, it's good to be home! We love traveling to our softball tournaments, (this last weekend was State, in Nampa for Alyssa and in Meridian for Darcie) but it also makes us appreciate home all the more. Dorothy had her finger on it when she clicked those ruby slippers together.

As we got close to Lewiston, we could see Mother Nature gearing up for a storm, with a stunning contrast between the golden wheat fields and the steely blue-gray sky. And of course, my camera was buried!

Later as he was grilling burgers and dogs for dinner, Todd called us out to watch the light show. It hadn't yet started raining, but the western sky was a treat, with flash lightning and some huge bolts. We all sat out on the trampoline and watched until the rain came. Cameron pulled the camera out for this, and we thought, "great - we'll have some cool shots of the lightning!"

Um, not.

In the middle of a lightning storm, with darkness rapidly falling is probably not the best time to search through the camera settings to get what you need! We got one (and only one) usable shot, which is a lesson to me to stop using the auto settings on the camera and start learning what it can really do. So here is our one-and-only lightning shot, which doesn't truly do it justice. Live and learn, I guess.

Signing off to go bake some cookies for my nephew and do all the mom things that make life rich. Smile, it's a great day!