It’s been very windy and very rainy here for the past two days. And the weather is deliciously damp and wonderful….adrak-elaichi waali chai, anyone? 
Cloud break. (The black speck is a leaf carried on the wind.)
The sky always mesmerizes me.
(That white thing is my dupatta being whipped along the wind. And that’s my hand trying to pull it away from the front of the lens but guess I didn’t do that in time.)
(I clipped this camera cover to the clothesline with my clutcher. Weird inspiration: “Caught by a Butterfly” )
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So I was trying to catch one of those fickle lightening flashes on the cam and after several missed chances and a lot of oops-there-goes-a-brilliant-photo-op-right-before-my-eyes types moments, I decided there was no point trying to do so. In one last desperate attempt, I said to the heavens : “Look, this is the last time I’m trying for today. There must be a lightening flash just as I press the capture button. And this is a warning.”I pressed the button, and voila! there was lightening. A brilliant hot copper-purple flash that spectacularly split apart the darkness and streaked across the dark ashen sky in a dazzling electric arc. A picture-perfect bolt.
The glitch? It flashed in the direction exactly opposite to where my camera was pointed for supposedly taking a pic of it. 
Guess the next time I issue warnings to the heavens, it should be with all the necessary conditions attached. 
I managed to capture just a scintillation.
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