the rain train...

kept on chugging last night

it was our turn to get swamped

to the north of us it came down

to the east of us it bucketed

to the south thunderstorms blew up and it all came over us

at one point or another

this was after I posted yesterday

it just got deeper and deeper

and foggier and foggier

a tree fell in the woods across the street at one point

will have to go and check it out

and yes it did make a sound even though no one saw it fall

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they said if all this water had fallen on Texas it wouldn't have been much

more than  a 1/2"

they need more than that to solve their problem

they forecast more for us for two or three days

Katia may visit the UK in a few days

she

is going past us at this moment

out at sea with the fish

thank goodness the skylight isn't leaking!!!!

but it makes for pretty patterns on the glass

then this morning

 for a while

the sky turned a very strange

forgotten colour

it was

um...err...ooooo

yeah

blue

and the reflections on the lake were pretty enough for me

 to put my shoes on

go outside

 into the

heat and humidity

mosquito infested back garden

and

take this

there were two rather large turtles sitting on a log that made me think about going out

but

of course

as always

it never ends

they slid into the water the second they saw me

curse them

so I turned blue around and saw this fine thing

another huge magnolia seed pod

with moth attached

I think it's a moth

I wasn't going to disturb it and ask

yuk!

and you'd think that with all this rain we'd have some fine specimens of these

but noooo

not one fine one to been had

just this little fellow

all curled up and tucked in beneath his blankie

oh well

maybe later

and this wonderful thing is what the husband bought a while ago

a hummingbird feeder

that looks like a hot air balllloooonnnn

he saw it and had to have it

but I have to make the nectar and clean the thing

!

and because he is one of those who must have it all

a

little

up

side

down

brolly

filled with water

to keep the ants from

invading

 HUH!!!!

ummmm

I think the hummers have left already

too much

rain

maybe

:)