It\u2019s pitch black. Except for the occasional lightning strike. The rain comes down non-stop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes the lightning is just a lamp from above being turned on and off by an unseen five-year old playing with a noisy switch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then – without warning – the picturesque bolt comes down from the sky and flashes the evening with a picture of the mountains to the west. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the noise, the rain, the hour, fireflies flash away. The only sign of life. I guess love doesn\u2019t stop for nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I need to learn to capture these bolts so others will believe they happened at all. They\u2019re beautiful. And they shine on a scene that only the night owl ever sees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But not tonight. Tonight I\u2019m just thinking about it. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s pitch black. Except for the occasional lightning strike. The rain comes down non-stop. Sometimes the lightning is just a lamp from above being turned on and off by an unseen five-year old playing with a noisy switch. Then – without warning – the picturesque bolt comes down from the sky and flashes the evening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-vP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":145,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2009\/07\/13\/when-winter-comes-heaven-will-rain-success-on-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":0},"title":"When winter comes heaven will rain success on you","date":"July 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"-- Dinner, July 11, Rio Seafood Buffett","rel":"","context":"In "chinese fortune cookie"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":958,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/02\/26\/oh-i-remembered-why-we-got-married\/","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":1},"title":"Oh I remember why we got married","date":"February 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"We went out on a date night tonight. It's been a tough week. A lot of throw up (all Amelia's), and a lot of long nights. At least Galatasaray tied Chelsea 1-1 :-) We've been running like chickens with our heads cut off. Big projects. Not big enough teams to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Melih gets married"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":326,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2010\/04\/23\/learning-to-succeed\/","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":2},"title":"Learning to succeed","date":"April 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I think that one thing that I do very poorly is succeed. Succeed in the sense that I dream it, I build it, and execute it successfully. This idea goes much deeper than the lunch table \"state school\" jokes. Instead, it's something that I've really been thinking about lately. As\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "just thinking out loud"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":862,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/02\/02\/this-week-in-review-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":3},"title":"This week in review","date":"February 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"What a week! Micky was out of town. The nanny got sick. The babies just grew up before my eyes. And we finally got rain in the Bay Area. The rain meant that today was a day to paint at the new house, and have a lazy Sunday morning. We\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Life Updates"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2006\/10\/31\/why-dont-they-just-seed-the-clouds\/","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":4},"title":"Why don't they just seed the clouds?","date":"October 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20061031\/sc_nm\/environment_china_water_dc Finally, the argument over whether the Chinese seed their rain clouds or not comes to a close. The answer must be no, or they wouldn't spend $25 Billion or more on such a project. I wonder if de-salination will work. The Middle East is trying it if I'm not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Extreme Blue Internship"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1233,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/07\/18\/a-new-tradition\/","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":5},"title":"A new tradition","date":"July 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Friday evening pizza date. Before Micky and I got married, had kids, and officially became adults, we used to head over to Cavallaho Point on a Friday afternoon, watch the sun set over the Golden Gate Bridge, and have fancy appetizers and drinks. You stop doing that when there's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Life Updates"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}