Are We Crazy? Well, Define Crazy!

During the biggest heat wave of the year, we left Orange County to head out to the desert. I guess we're contrarians, because every sane person is desperately trying to figure out how to leave the desert for cooler locations. My Spam-ometer registered 103 yesterday, which isn't bad for this time of the year.

Good news / bad news:  The bad is we had high humidity, which makes the 103+ temps tough. But the good, wow, great skies. Thunderheads, lightning at night, just incredible skies. So what did we do? Well, some night photography. We set the alarm for 4 AM Saturday morning to watch the Perseid meteor shower, but there wasn't much to see. We took the cots out under the stars last night, and it was much better, with many meteor sightings. Impossible to photograph (at least for me), but fun to watch!

Some day photography to capture the fantastic skies...

That's a huge storm cell on the horizon, north of Joshua Tree

A drive into Joshua Tree National Park...

 I had a hard time keeping the Jeep on the road with these skies!!

Watched the Olympics... Lebron in the house!!

And had to get a little creative to stay cool. Not an Olympic pool, but...

I promised my wife I wouldn't take her picture.... and she believed me??

Hope your weekend was a good one, and hope you were able to find ways to stay cool and get out and take some photos!

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