A second bonus of my too early morning walk today, is that I again saw the Armadillo foraging for it’s breakfast – and this time it came very close to me (I stood quite still and apparently became invisible!), and I had my zoom lens camera so was able to take some great video:
Alternatively, here’s a couple of photographs that I also took:
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.
Yesterday and through the night, we filled the pool; today Atlas Pools returned to finish installing the plumbing fixtures, and set the pump running. They also put chemicals in the water, which sadly mean we can’t go in till at least Sunday – but it’s pretty, and with the pump running, we get to see the bubbler jet and “sheer descent” waterfall!
I also put together a build sequence video – with “action” flowing water from the two minutes point …
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