Figure 1 – Storms over the New Jersey shore, IPhone photograph,(c) DE Wolf 2013.

I had a less than thrilling day today flying from Detroit to Boston, with a stopover in Philadelphia.  There were however three high points.  The first was when USAirways, in its latest incarnation of coming out of bankruptcy, lied and announced that our plane had had mechanical difficulties (the not amusing part).  We knew that they were lying moments later when they then announced that if we had left our carry-ons on the plane we should go to another gate, the one we originally came in on, and retrieve them because it was about to take off with another load of Boston-bound passengers (the amusing part).  The second highpoint was when a reader emailed me a really beautiful set of rain drop photographs.  I’ve included the link for you here. I’m sorry to say that this is one of those image sets that is circulating the web, and I cannot find out who the original photographer is. The third was the gorgeous thunder storms moving up the east coast.  I amused myself with my IPhone and include as Figure 1 an image of thunder clouds over the New Jersey shore.