Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Lightning

Lightning always reminds me of summers from my childhood. No matter where we lived, we'd always spend part of our summer here in Utah visiting. My grandparents had a house on the Provo bench, and they had a big window overlooking the valley. When there was a storm, we'd look out over the whole valley and watch the lightning. Grandpa usually gave us a physics lesson on the speed of sound, and we'd count the seconds between the flash and the boom. (If you were wondering, every five seconds is about a mile away...)

So Paige and I were counting the seconds tonight during the storm, and thinking of Grandpa Woodbury.

2 comments:

Jacqui said...

And that lightning was CLOSE tonight, wasn't it?

I love memories like that.

Sandra and Dave said...

What a wonderful memory you brought back for me, as well, Katie. I remember that you didn't think it was strange that grandpa carried the elements chart (I know it's called something, but don't know what)in his wallet.