This past week we have had several thunderstorms sweep over and around the Springs, mostly fairly quiet ones locally, but a look across the skies in any direction, any afternoon shows huge thunderheads growing and spreading over the mountains, the Front Range and the Ramparts, and sailing like galleons over the prairies to the east. Sometimes they are white and towering; sometimes, they are dark and spreading, and you can see below them the darkness of the downpours they are dropping--rain and... Sign in to see full entry.