A line of thunderstorms rolled through last night dumping around an inch of rain over the span of a couple hours. In their wake the Sun poked through the thunderheads long enough for a majestic sunset. Juggling baby, tripod, and camera I managed to get set up for a couple of shots before the best of the light was gone

This is a relatively long exposure (a few seconds) in that pink/umber light. As a bonus the extended exposure turned all of the fish into long, brightly colored eels! It's kind of creepy.

If you examine the photo long enough you might even be able to make out a half dozen frogs. There weren't that many frogs earlier in the year but as fall progresses they seem to be increasing daily. Zane and I go down to count them most days and yesterday we found two large bullfrogs and at least seven little peepers. The peepers are tougher to find and I suspect there's many more since they'll hide under rocks in the waterfall channel and even nestle into the algae at the edges.

Oh, and as you can see, the Black-eyed Susans are staging a pond take-over.