Reader photo: Kate Boutwell took this photo around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday looking northwest from Ashland toward Medford, where a thundershower was dumping rain.

Reader photos: Russ Page shot iPhone videos of the lightning on the other side of the valley below Grizzly Peak on Tuesday evening from his house on Wimer Street toward the north end of town. These images of the lightning bolts are screen-captures from the videos.

Reader photo: Rick Keck took this photo of a fiery sunset following a flashing lightning storm from his back porch on Bush Street in Ashland.

Reader photos: Julie Raefield and Rob Bremer captured these photos between 8:36 and 8:47 p.m. Tuesday as a series of lightning storms passed through the Ashland area.

Reader photo: Kate Boutwell captured this shot of a colorful sunset over Ashland with stadium lights in the foreground on Monday, June 5.

Reader photos: Kathy H. Cooper of Ashland caught a pair of images of a double rainbow shortly before the sun went down Tuesday.

Reader photo: Regina Ayars of Ashland caught this rainbow connecting earth to sky just before sunset Tuesday, on the tail end of a late-in-the-day lightning-and-thunder, sight-and-sound show playing out over the south end of the Rogue Valley.

Reader photo — and haiku: Barry Vitcov offers this combination of words and image.

Reader photo: A recent walk in Lithia Park inspired Pepper Trail to put together this haiku.

Reader photo: Rain, rain go away, so we can play pickleball another day. Douglas R. Smith captured this photo of the courts in Lithia Park between February storms.