Drip, drip, BOOM!

In most years by July 4th we're fairly well into the dry portion of the year (peaking the end of July and beginning of August), but not this year. So far it's not quite up to 1993, the year we had exactly two weeks of summer: the last week of July and the first week of August, and rain the rest of the time, but we could be on course to match that. (This is unlike Midland summers, for which my main memory is of humidity.)

But it's an interesting contrast of sounds tonight between the constant nearby dripping of the roof gutters and the irregular fireworks explosions throughout the nearby woods.