This year, April showers seem to bring even more April showers. (It's supposed to rain tomorrow, and maybe Thursday as well.) As I've said before, weird weather.

Of course it's the perfect opening to show a few pix from last week's storm, which here in the hills included not just torrential rain but also THUNDER and lightning so big and so close by, it had the Little Dog checking the internet for fallout shelters.

The creek rose and the road to our place looked like this:

And after hours of downpour which brought out the plows to clear rockfalls from the mountain roads, we had a sweet moment of this:

Oh, and also? Hail.