What terrific pictures to begin the challenge!  We're sitting in a rain storm right now ... perhaps in a few days it will let up?  (Hopefully it won't rain every day until the challenge is done!  LOL!)  I'm sure everyone that lives here is thrilled ... they've been having drought conditions in the midwest and all the reservoirs are low.  This should help ... it's SERIOUSLY raining!!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa