The Rain on the Plains

Rain finally came!  We were driving through the country and watched the gloriously gray storm clouds roll in, the fingers of lightning flash, and the sheets of rain falling miles away.  Ooh!  It felt so good!
Out in corn and soybean country, I love the feeling of openness and freedom.  You can see the horizon, watch the weather from afar, and take big, deep breaths.  It might make you feel very tiny in the middle of all that openness, but even if you are just a tiny critter, you are completely free, with nothing hemming you in!

Here's a little photographic freedom: