The view from my deck of a lightning-caused fire burning in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains
north of Tucson. The fire is burning well away from civilization in very rugged terrain; the forest service
is letting this burn because there is no real threat. As of today it has grown to more than 500 acres.

Now, the cool part of this is that I took an image of this when it started from a lightning strike eight days earlier.
I was setting up the camera when I saw the lightning strike and took the picture below about a minute later:



And some of the lightning activity in the area just prior to this strike: