Lightning strikes over the Puyehue volcano, over 500 miles south of Santiago, Chile, Monday June 6, 2011. Authorities have evacuated about 3,500 people in the nearby area. The volcano was calm on Monday, two days after raining down ash and forcing thousands to flee, although the cloud of soot it had belched out still darkened skies as far away as Argentina. (AP Photo/Francisco Negroni, AgenciaUno)

Klye Klevjer of Beautiful Day Window Cleaning removes the holiday window decorations from the front window of Kompan, Inc., a downtown Tacoma business, on a beautiful day, January 19, 2011.

The rain dropped to an intermittent drizzle as hundreds came to see Zoolights at Pt. Defiance Zoo & Aquarium Sunday evening. One might say that the wet pavement added to the beauty of more than a half million colored lights. Zoolights is open 5 – 9p.m. every night through January 2 (except Dec. 24).

Recently-planted ivy is highlighted by early morning sunlight raking across a textured support wall below Interstate 5 which was built as part of the current SR-16 interchange project.

On a windy and rainy afternoon, two girls walk along the Orting Highway. When asked their names, they would only giggle.

A thick fog settled over the Tacoma area and Titlow Beach Thursday morning as Cormorants and seagulls occupying the tops of pilings seemed to be waiting for a sun break to begin their active days. Photo taken Thursday October 8, 2009 by Dean J. Koepfler / The News Tribune

I suppose a consolation for having to work into the night is having a good view.  Here a worker prepares for a concrete pour atop a column in Nalley Valley, part of the SR-16 revision in Tacoma.