August 7, 2005. Waynesville, North Carolina. The Smoky Mountains in western NC. 

August 7, 2005. Storm Lake, Iowa. Photographer states :: These wind turbines have a hub height of 213 feet, and a rotor diameter of 164 feet.
 

August 7, 2005. Rapid City, South Dakota. This a result of a 'DRY THUNDERSTORM.' Increasingly there are thunderstorms roaring across the Midwest that never rain but are highly ionic with lightning strikes setting off fires on very dry terra firma. 

August 10, 2005. Colby, Kansas. 

August 10, 2005. Rapid City, South Dakota. 

August 10, 2005. Cody, Wyoming. 

August 10, 2005. Cody, Wyoming. Photographer states :: The one on the right ended up coming very close.
 

August 10, 2005. Allen, Texas. Photographer states :: I have noticed a few fallen limbs around the neighborhoods from the storm we had Monday, but this is by far one of the biggest and strongest. The fallen limb itself is bigger than most trees. It is a native tree growing alongside a creek. I am sure it happened during the storm we got the other day while I was at the carwash. Check my 8-8-05 photos to see how hard it was coming down and was nearly horizontal. The same storm made a mess of our parking lot blowing large branches everywhere. It was worse than I even thought earlier.
 

August 9, 2005. Yucca Valley, California. Photographer states :: A car is stuck in the mud on Onaga Trail after heavy flash flooding in Yucca Valley, CA on Tuesday, Powerful thunderstorms created havok in the small desert community east of Palm Springs, CA.
 

August 8, 2005. The wonder of an 18 month old. Whatever happened to just the simple rainshower? Davenport, Florida. 

August 8, 2005. North North East of Clearwater, Florida. 

August 9, 2005. Rosemount, Minnesota. 

August 8, 2005. Tucson, Arizona. Photographer states :: I sent this picture to a local TV station hoping the weatherman (Chuck George) might know what it was. It made the local news, but all he said was that it was very close to being a funnel cloud. My guess is a wall cloud or a funnel cloud. This was associated with a severe thundershower over Tucson at 1:00 am Monday morning. A loop of the Base Radial Velocity radar over that time showed a distinct 30 MPH to 40 MPH swirl in the winds as the storm passed over south Tucson and moved into the Tucson Mountains, about the same time this picture was taken. The picture was taken from northwest Tucson looking south towards the Tucson Mountains.  

August 8, 2005. Tuscon, Arizona. 

The Rooster

Tel Aviv, Israel. 

July 1, 2005. Ashdod, Israel 

June 30, 2005. Ashdod, Israel. 

August 11, 2005. A boy looking out of a tent in the settlement of Morag in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
 

August 11, 2005. Opposition Faithful meet at The Western Wall with 4 days until disengagement in Gaza. This is difficult for everyone. I am confident Prime Minister Sharon is just as devastated for them. Realizing Likud have split with Benjamin Netanyahu taking a firm stance against disengagement only begins to explain the profound distress people are feeling in Israel.