Spring Storms-

We've been in the midst of quite a drought. We've had very little snow this year and our lake is lower than I've seen it in the 11 years I've lived here. But, it's Spring now and with that generally brings some strong storms. We got one on Saturday that was very intense. I'm full of superlatives about it. The most hail , the most rain in the shortest amount of time, the never before seen river flowing in our backyard, over and through our stone wall,and around our house, only to cross the road and head to the lake. The most beautiful mist rising afterwards.
I've included a few pictures.
My poor hubby! He is from the Cleveland area and knows next to nothing about flowers and gardening, but had to have pink plastic flamingos and a gazing ball in ours. I'm not sure why he thinks the pink flamingos are a nod to me being from Florida. I don't bother to tell him that native Floridians don't care about pink plastic flaminogs, the tourists from Ohio do! Gazing balls are firmly an Ohio thing. He finally got his gazing ball last year, but he dropped it when he was remodeling a flowerbed and broke it. So, recently, he replaced it, only to have this hail storm break it. I loved the picture my DD#2 took of it broken. You can see her in it as well as the poor beaten down daffodil and the pink flamingo as well.
Meanwhile, my DD#1 was away for a band competition all day. The bus trip was directly in the path of all of these "possible tornado producing storms" which made me a bit anxious. She came home talking a mile a minute about the whole experience. Since that's so unusual for her, it had to have been a great day. She seemed satisfied with her scores.
I'll be working this week to put together the final touches for the children's art show at my church this weekend.