Cape Photo of the Day - Photo #203

The leading edge of yesterday's storm coming over Deep Creek. Just made it back to the house before the downpour.

Cape Photo of the Day - Photo #202

A stiff wind from today's weather resulting in high water at the dock, bent over grasses, and a hail of acorns.

Cape Photo of the Day - Photo #193

Here's that sunset I posted on Facebook yesterday evening following the wicked storm, but this time, with the Nikon instead of the iPhone. As it turns out, we did actually lose the tops of a few trees down by the water. That initial microburst or maybe even the funnel cloud clipped the edge of our yard and snapped three tree tops right off. Here's a picture of the largest one below. All in all, though, just happy we didn't lose power and nothing was in the way of our falling tree tops. The sunset was a nice, "I'm sorry" gesture from Mother Nature...

Cape Photo of the Day - Photo #192

An ugly line of storms crossing the head of the Severn on its way to Cape St. Claire. We had a wicked few minutes and reports of a funnel cloud in the Cape, but fortunately no big damage, and we dodged another round of power outages. The good news is cooler temps and lower humidity in its wake. Enjoy!

Cape Photo of the Day - Photo #188

As we returned from the Eastern Shore yesterday, a wicked little thunder storm blew up to meet us at the Bay Bridge. I am uneasy going over the bridge on the nicest of days, so the weather had me even more nervous than usual. To keep from curling up in the fetal position, I distracted myself by taking some pictures. By the time I took this one, we were through the worst of it, but you can see the remnants of the squall on the right side of the photo just beyond Sandy Point Light. Needless to say, I was happy to alight safely on the Western Shore and get back to the Cape.

Cape Photo of the Day - Photo #76

 iPhone shot of passing thunderhead. That's all I got.

Cape Photo of the Day - Photo #52

Here's a little taste of the weather that just passed through the Cape. Blue skies held out for the most part for the Opening Day fishermen, but the front we all knew was coming finally arrived this evening. Conditions will not be so favorable on the Bay tomorrow.

As for my #1 crew of fishermen, they were skunked today and came home empty handed, but a very good friend had better luck and fixed us up with our first fresh rockfish of the season. My belly and heart are full. Fingers crossed for more successful fishing tomorrow.