Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.- Mark Twain
We started the day in Woodward OK. With a Birthday celebration for Dan who loves people making a fuss for him!
And since it was his Birthday our first stop was the happiest place in the world, The Shattuck windmill museum! What may well be the greatest windmill Museum in the world!
After extracting maximum fun from the windmill museum, we headed off to our target area for the day around Tucumcari NM.
By around 4pm we had identified our target storm for the day in the mountains between Tucumcari and Wagon Mound NM. While the roads were challenging they happened to take is right to where we need we to be and the scenery was spectacular!
We found a brilliant vantage point with storms to our North and South and were treated to the most stunning lighting show. With intense bolts that were incredibly long duration. Which made capturing the spectacle straight forward even for someone with my limited photography skills. Being at high elevation helped things too!
After we decided to leave the storm the drive to our stop for the night in Santa Rosa continued to put on a show.
Wednesday could be a repeat storm chase in the mountains or a dice roll back in the Pan Handle.
I find a Windmill Museum curiously appealing! Wonder what it sounds like?
Lightening over those vast landscapes must be amazing.