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RHS Wisley - Jun 2019
These are more images from RHS Wisley in June 2019. It has a great selection of plants and shrubs inside the garden complete with Glass house, lake and long borders. There is a magnificent arrangement of colour and diversity. A garden well worth visiting particularly when there is a Flower Show on view.
There are so many beautiful places on this world every day, it is priceless to get to some of them occasionally. But you must go for it, it's not gonna find you. This morning was freezing, but I woke up early and went about 10km outside of my house to get this picture. Same principle seems to work for any other endeavour. Strange, I'm saying that and for the most time not doing it. Lazynesssss...
I woke up to a view that took my breath away... The mountains, towering and grand, made me feel tiny... It’s no wonder people chase this feeling, risking everything just to be close to such wonder ️
I woke up this morning thinking erotic thoughts
I want you to penetrate my mind
Slowly, deeply, rhythmically
To enter my deepest thoughts
To explore the contours of my soul
- Eila Mahima Jaipaul
I woke up this morning and this is what I saw – the weirdest and the most alarming spectacle that I have seen since I came to L.A.
There were fires burning at 30 miles of our home in Santa Monica and Malibu.
The wind was blowing full force and the fire consumed 1000 homes. The air quality was catastrophic and people started to wear masks again ... what a day!
• Hair - WINGS - HAIR - ES0615 Blondes & Reds (Pack)
• Shirt - TETRA - Ex's Shirt (Group Gift)
• Mug - piXit - But First Coffee - Holdable Mug
Woke up to a wonderful snowfall blanketing the backyard fences in the neighbourhood.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
This is what we woke up to on the day before we came home - it rained so hard that the pool overflowed.
Explored Jan 7th, 2021 !
On the 18th of December we woke up, got our rental car and headed for Irazu volcano. My wife really was looking forward to seeing the caldera of Irazu and Turrialba volcanoes. Unfortunately due to covid and what seems like just very poor management, it is almost impossible to figure out how to make reservations or where to even go in those national parks to be able to hike or drive to the edge of the volcanoes. All the phone numbers seem disconnected on the countries national park websites and the email addresses listed just bounce back as undeliverable.
When we arrived at Irazu after a long windy drive through acres and acres of farmland growing potatoes, onions and cattle, we were told we had to make a reservation online and they were very unhelpful with how to do that and said it was too late to make a reservation for that day anyway. They directed us to another section of the park on the east side of the mountain that we were able to visit and it had some amazing cloud forest with cool plants and a view of the Turrialba volcano which was much closer than I imagined.
When we got out of the car I think it finally registered with my kids why I told them to bring coats to Costa Rica. It was only in the 50's at that high altitude and there wasn't much sun on that side that late in the day. I got a cell phone shot of the volcano from afar and zoomed in with my Olympus Em1x and 100-400 lens to get a closer view of the charred hillsides of the volcano.
There were some cool hummingbirds but they were shy and the lighting was terrible so no pics of those.
My son though I should look under a couple of rocks to see what we could find. I wasn't too optimistic given the elevation and temperature and exposure but there were only a couple of decent rocks and under the first one I found two cute little Highland Alligator lizards (Mesaspis monticola). Unfortunately they were both drab juveniles or females. It was a bright green adult male of this species that I had really hoped to see on this trip. Those little gators are amazing lizards to be able to survive in such a harsh cold environment. I wish I had taken more time to photograph them but I thought we would see many more in the coming 4 days while we were in the montane habitats but alas that wasn't too be.
It was foggy all day yesterday when we went to feed the cattle. We should have known there would be ice when we woke up this morning.
Oklahoma Panhandle
Skipped chasing yesterday as our target for today was northeastern MT and we were far east into ND when we woke up. But late last night storms moved from Wyoming into MT and we chased them until about 3am, with one of the last storms producing this gorgeous positive strike out of a dying, low-topped storm.
Sat on this road for 90 minutes without seeing a soul, it was a great time with Blake, Rob and Rod who decided we can sleep when we die :)
A wonderful consolation prize after missing the tornado of all-time.
I had the privilege of tagging along with the Woking Great Crested Newt Project this week, as they conducted their annual survey at Westfield Common. Woking Borough Council are working with Natural England, trialling a new approach to support Great Crested Newts in the area. The pilot project is now in its fourth year, and Natural England will be rolling out the scheme used in the Woking pilot to other areas around the country.
To find out more click here.