Actually we have two sofas in the front “formal living room”, and Chloe likes both of them, at various times! She has always preferred to lean rather than just sit! But apparently, she forgot for a while:
Chloe on the sofa
Stick insect!
At school (many) years ago, we had stick insects – I kept some of my own in a tall plastic jar, feeding them with privet hedge branches and watching them grow, lay eggs (which hatched into tiny versions of their parents); all fascinating stuff but I’m astonished to discover that there’s one of these exotic creatures right here in our garden!
It wasn’t keen on me getting close with the camera, and proved itself alive by moving and turning away a bit, though it didn’t move in the slow wobbling wiggly way that I remember from school days …
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Sorry to anyone that’s not keen on insects, but I always found these fascinating when I was young!
Distant Summer Lightning
We knew that our new home was nicely located with a view over the wetlands, but we didn’t realize just how good our weather view would be – it turns out that living in (flat) Florida with the nearest trees a few hundred yards away gives us great views of both sunsets (examples: June, February) as well as the regular summer thunder and lightning – but it’s much harder to record lightning than sunsets!
Last night was spectacular; a storm maybe 20 miles west of us struck lightning both cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground for at least an hour; we were too far to hear thunder except occasional deep rumbles, but we had a great view of lightning. This 1/2 minute clip is extracted from only 3 minutes of video I recorded:
Head to YouTube to watch in higher (full screen) resolution.
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