After the rain

I forgot to include what few pictures I was able to take during the first rainstorm of the season. I did mention that we had the promised 3 inches of rain and gusty winds that often reached 40 mph.

Here is our sand box. It's no longer sand, or even mud, but actually lakeside property for little kids' toys.


All around the city we saw tree debris down on the road. This shows the mess under the oak tree in front of our driveway entrance. Carolyn actually went out Tuesday evening and swept it all off the road and loaded most of the mess into our green waste trash can. Our neighbor Tom chided her for doing this without a hard hat at least. He showed her a 5 inch diameter branch that had fallen from the same tree into his flower garden. She said she was listening for any sounds of cracking. At least the wind had died down before she did the work under the tree.
There were power outages all over the city but most of the time it was for brief moments only. Ed and his family suffered several hours of power outage so they came over to our house for supper and evening play.