Bruce Fairbanks, who has lived in Nausauket overlooking Apponaug Cove for more than 40 years, says he has an ideal vantage to watch weather systems as they move across the city. He’s taken in the advance of dark and threatening clouds followed by wind whipped waters to bright sunlight in the wake of a downpour. When a storm thundered through Warwick July 27, Bruce was on his porch to catch this image of lightening strikes to Cowesset with a glass of wine.