Lightning Strike Fall we had a hot spell

we had a hot spell here in East Tennessee recently

I hesitated to use this title because it’s a little too close to home for what I hear each morning when I awaken

Peak fall foliage smolders within a stream hollow along the Middle Prong River in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near my home in eastern Tennessee

an audience member asked me

Lightning Strike Fall we had a hot spellIt's fun to draw parallels between manmade phenomena and Mother Nature. When I worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation and lived in Orlando, Florida, I came across the imagery of a photographer who went by the handle of "Lightning Stalker." He had the coolest nighttime photography of cloud to ground lightning strikes courtesy of Florida's abundant summer afternoon storms. I blown away by his stunning compositions, when just a fraction of a second