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Greetings everyone!

With summer in full swing, I thought it might be fun to try something new. Starting today, I will be highlighting some of the top content for the week based on the Backyard Community's own leaderboard tool.

This week, it looks like the top five posts according to our community's leaderboard are as follows:

Philip Stark:  …

These days it's rare that I am in the right place to catch a full-on rainbow. For me, it just never happens. But imagine my surprise when I found what you see in the picture below. The rainbow that was right there in front of me was so large, no amount of backing up would allow me to get the entire thing into frame for the photo. It was HUGE! I'm just fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to see it at all I guess. :) Feel free to click on the image to see the full size of it. This…

I was amazed and proud of the individuals that stood up to mother nature and exclaimed; "Not my home..."

I think it's easy to forget just how lucky many of us truly are. The folks dealing with the tremendous flooding are fighting incredible odds. But I will admit, seeing a team of individuals coming together to do the impossible makes me very proud of what we as a species can accomplish when properly motivated. I am in complete and…

My wife came home earlier and brought with her some images she grabbed from her iPhone 4 during the earlier funnel event. This is the aftermath of the storm, but the clouds are amazing nonetheless. Click on any image to make larger, for…

As you can see here from WeatherBug media partner, KING5 in Seattle, Mount Vernon in Washington (state) has seen something truly once in a lifetime. A fully formed funnel cloud making an appearance here in the town I happen to live in. For those of you in the mid-west shaking your heads at the thought of something like this being…