Here's some shots of the lightning that came with the thunderstorms earlier this week.

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A couple lightning shots from the last storm that came through here. Strangely enough now that I want to try and get more lightning photographs, it hasn't been storming downtown.

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A photo taken from my living room looking north during the storm. A little fuzzy because I was shooting through the glass.

( Lightning from last night's storm )

Moon!

Here's a set of pictures taken in Miami at a church called La Ermita de La Caridad (Shrine of Our Lady of Charity)(sorry, the page is only available in Spanish). It's located on the edge of Biscayne Bay in Miami. The pictures are of the bay and surrounding area (including looking towards part of Downtown) and of La Ermita itself inside and out.

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Oko a.k.a. "Pooky"

My dad was pulling out the generator to test it this morning and was greeted by a surprise guest in the shed. A very large, green iguana.

One large iguana for your viewing pleasure

Much hilarity ensued as we tried to extract it from the shed.

What do you bet the weather changes in the next week and this poor tree ends up super confused.

A bright yellow tree, only one on campus

I want to post a couple of these pictures to another community but I'd like some help picking one out. On Sunday, just before the first day of classes, I walked around campus and took some pictures of areas I hadn't photographed before. There's quite a few here, a total of 77 but that's just a few of the nearly 250 I took that day ( Read more... )

I took advantage of the warm weather (finally) and the extreme need for a mental health vacation to snap some pictures around campus. Forgot to take a picture of Tech Tower to use as my gallery thumbnail but I'll just do that later.

Instead of posting all 28 (out of 147) pictures, here are links to them all, size reduced and framed.
( Images a plenty )