For the final "Throwback Thursday" of August, 2016, I have a very recent 'photo-op' - taken (once again) by my brother Glenn with the digital camera portion of his smartphone...

Since my sibling and I both live in south Florida, we each had experienced some unusual weather conditions. Of course, Glenn lived in Margate longer than I have, so he got to experience the thrills and sheer terror that was 'Hurricane Andrew' (back in August, 1992); and the last major weather experience we'd shared together in our part of the 'Sunshine State' was 'Hurricane Wilma' (in October, 2005).

Living in a low-level region, we both get to see cloud formations in the sky above the Everglades (to the west of the condo complex where we live) without any tall buildings to obstruct our view. And the clouds that are responsible for major thunderstorms provide a natural 'light show' that rivals anything man-made...

On Saturday, August 20th, Glenn and I were the 'audience' to two celestial sightings after sunset. The first sighting was that of a cumulus nimbus cloud (spotted southwest of my condo building) forming over the Everglades. Every few seconds, said cloud would illuminate by the lightning from within. And, everyone once in a while, a bolt of lightning would shoot outside of the cloud (and sometimes linger for one or two seconds).

We were in the 'pool area' behind the condo clubhouse, when we saw this majestic sight; and I said to Glenn, "You have got to take a picture of this!"

Getting out his smartphone, he attempted to take a snapshot of the cloud, just as the lightning struck. However, my bro has a poor sense of timing; by the time he hit the button to take the pic, said lightning came and went. Two minutes had passed, and all he got were a half-a-dozen images of the same dark cloud. "Try again!" I'd said... and try, he did...

Three attempts later, he finally got the right image - of the dark cloud brightened by the lightning - which I'm sharing with all of you right now. (Naturally, Glenn deleted all of the other digital pix, in favor of keeping the good shot.)

Earlier on, I'd mentioned that there were two celestial sightings that evening. The thunderstorm cloud was the first one, but the second one was even more interesting. Getting our information from NASA (via the Internet), we'd waited for the 8:25 PM (E.S.T.) pass over of the International Space Station (which lasted five whole minutes).

Naturally, Glenn tried to take a picture of the space station with his smartphone, too, and he got it... sort of. All the imagery consisted of was a tiny white dot among the black field of space. So, I'd decided not to post that 'photo-op'. The summer storm cloud is a much better choice...