AMAZING NATURE FRIDAY!

Some natural inspirations to take your mind off of the unnatural horrors of Black Friday!

National Geographic has this shot of the lightning cloud forming from a June eruption in southern Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano complex.

Check out this short (2 min) scene from the BBC's "Frozen Planet" series.  An icy finger of death is formed, freezing everything it touches on the ocean floor. 

I love bugs, and NG also has this story of a new albino spider discovered in Australia.  The 1 1/2-inch wide newby is being called the albino trapdoor until a formal name is announced.

And last, we Oregon coasters love our storms (our power was out for five hours with Tuesday's whopper which had Cape Blanco measuring gusts at 80-plus), so I knew you'd appreciate this September shot of a wave crashing against a Japanese breakwater during Typhoon Roke.