Boy, Did We Get the Rain!

Last evening we had severe thunderstorms for about an hour.  While working today, it rained hard for a few hours.

I just got home from work and all of sudden I noticed it was dark (at 3:15 p.m.) and we were being pelted with more rain.  I opened the bedroom window and snapped this pic. It is so hard to see rain in a picture, but you can see how dark it is.

 Here is the front yard about 15 minutes later....getting lighter, but still raining hard.

I love it!  All of my pine pollen should have been forced from the trees and the deck floor has been cleaned of pollen by the heavy rain.   I would love to get rain like this at least twice a week all summer.

By 4:00 P.M. it was just sprinkling so I went out to investigate my new iris blooms.

It seems everything has shot up 6 inches in the last two days.

 My seeds on the deck have sprouted with at least one in every container.  Sweet!  Sunday I checked the ones I planted in the ground and I only saw two. No seeds (other than weed seeds) seem to like to grow in my garden soil!

Hopefully I can transplant some of these in a week or two and they will take.  Dianne, the black square pots are the Cherries Jubilee you sent me. I am so excited!