Dark and murky here for this time of morning. Gotta tell a story on my silly self. I came perilously close to being "quick fried to a crackly crunch" while taking a WRUW photo.
Mrs. noelekal and I were just out doing a quick bit of tidying in a new flower bed she had arranged last Saturday and topping off the bird feeders. I was also catching the morning watch photo. An intense blinding flash of lightning interrupted us while an excruciatingly intense crash of thunder simultaneously hammered our ears. No detectable interval to "count seconds." If our back yard neighbors had been looking out they would have laughed at us as we scrambled to the back door.
So, I retreated to the comparative safety of the front porch . Rain had just begun and light was poor.