Maximum temperature here today 27⁰C, minimum 13⁰C. Dry, but rain forecast. 17km/h North-Westerly winds with gusts up to 39 km/h.
Sorry that I am not keeping up with blogs or comments, but we have had continuous slow WiFi, at times being only 0.1 (sigh). The garden is also being very demanding, especially with two fig trees loaded with fruit and the dehydrator being on the blink. I am spending many hours in the kitchen bottling.
Sunflowers.
Interesting clouds, do you see the teddy bear face?
Genus Calliptamusa member of Short-horned
Grasshoppers Family Acrididae...
as above.
House sparrow (Passer domesticus) - I just liked this shot!
Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album)...
As above...
See the white comma and why it is named as such.
Orchids in the house. Cymbidium.
Lesser Purple Emperor (Apatura ilia). Think this is the female, the male (of course) is the pretty purple one!! She is still pretty good looking though!
As above...
As above.
The setting sun after a stormy day. 16/08/2020
Florentine Woolcarder (Anthidium
florentinum)...
As above.
Bumblebee.
As above.
Peacock butterfly (Aglais io)...
As above.
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta).
Common social wasp (V. vulgaris).
Yellow‐legged hornet, (Vespa
velutina) - another bee killer that appears to be rapidly spreading in
France!! First identified here in 2004 😡
The first rose for some time appeared especially for my birthday 19/08 ....
We met up with friends and had a 'distancing' picnic at a friends house with a very large garden, and a very pretty farm wagon. Despite the fact that we had not seen each other since February, and we had all been in lock-down, there seemed to be a lot to talk about. Thirty-nine years anniversary tomorrow!
My local list of wildflowers. (90 Species 23/08/2020).
