Wow what a start to May! Amazing images of the recent events! Be sure to check out the galleries from April and March too (I'm playing catch up, there's so many exceptional pictures). Thanks go to Theresa Tanner, Derek Loewen, Evella Po, Jorge Gonzalez, Mark Jinks, David Baxter, Stacey Lemay, Warren Friesen, Larry McNish and James Parry. Thanks to the following twitter users for sharing your tweets: Images By Stan (@ImagesByStan), Yuichi Takasaka (@ytakasaka), Hugo Crespo (@HugoCrespo2), Valerie J (@ValerieJoyHornr), Destination BC (@HelloBC), John Andersen (@JohnAndersen95), straycouple (@straycouple), Dat nguyen (@huudat802003) and gautam das (@babunbabu).

James Parry sent this great image taken on May 6 near the Reynold-Alberta Museum, Wetaskiwin.

Theresa Tanner sent these atmospheric photographs taken on May 7-8 near Stettler.

Larry McNish sent this awesome time-lapse taken on May 7-8 at the UofC's observatory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaPceChNMMw.

Warren Friesen sent these terrific photographs taken on 7 May in Airdrie.

Stacey Lemay sent these great photos taken on 8 May near Leduc.

David Baxter sent these brilliant shots taken on 1, 3 and 7 West and North of Calgary.

Mark Jinks sent these brilliant shots taken on 7/8 May.

Jorge Gonzalez sent these great images taken on 7/8 May.

Garrick Po sent this awesome image taken on 8 May in Calgary.

Derek Loewen sent these atmospheric photographs taken on 1-2 May near Grand Prarie.

Theresa Tanner sent these fantastic photos taken on 2 May near Alix.

Twitter user Destination BC (@HelloBC) shared the following on 2015-. Click the image for the original tweet.