This is a photograph of what eventually was an 18" deep pile of hail stones that accumulated in about 5 minutes during the storm described in the text below. Since I know many of you won't wade through the written part of this post, all I can say is that this was the most impressive display I have seen in all my years on this planet. This pile took about 3 days to melt in 80+ degree weather.

One of these days, I will organize these posts better so the last photograph of each post is the last chronologically instead of the other way around. I hope my lack of organization of these photos doesn't make it too confusing to follow. It is just a lot easier to post them in sequence from Picasa, and it only allows 4 at a time.