Dec 16, 2014
Imminence
"Do not be deceived, though, by the scenic beauty of the Gates of the Mountains into believing that the confrontations and terrors of nature are obsolescences frozen in stone, like the battles of satyrs in Greek bas-relief, remnants of mythology and witnessed if ever by dinosaurs and now only by seismographs. But we should be prepared for the possibility that the terror of the universe has not yet fossilized and the universe has not yet run out of blowups."
Lightning strikes near Downtown Phoenix, Arizona during a late season monsoon thunderstorm.