Drenched....

....dahlia! 
We had thunder and lightening waging war most of the night and early morning--Boom, crack, boom, crack--I loved it!  At 8:30 a.m. it looked more like  5:00 a.m. as it was so dark out! The rain stopped about 11:00, so I took this while I could, thinking the rain would start again soon; but instead a lovely breeze sprung up from out of the West, blew the clouds out over the Lake, the sun came out, and it's a lovely day--although it would have been just as lovely with the rain as well!  :))