Sun's Coming 2010-08-19 Early morning above the apple tree in our garden. Good to see cumulus clouds after so much closed cloud cover and rain. Many thank for you comments on yesterday's (and other) pictures! I've not found much time for commenting the last couple of days. Today should be better. Have a good day.

Slughead! 2010-08-15 I found this critter on top of the fresh green lettece in our garden. Needless to say, it didn't last long there - but it has lots and lots of relatives. Again, thanks for the comments about the water drops. Very encouraging.

After the Storm 2010-08-14: Tremendous storm last night in Vienna - the most lightning I've seen in the city and high winds. It burnt out our Wireless LAN box - I spent the morning and most of the day replacing and reconfiguring - still haven't managed to reconfigure the repeater. Anyway, early this morning I went into the garden to inspect for damage, and saw these drops on our olive tree (1 metre high in a pot). No wind, the sun peeping between the clouds. A better day today. Many thanks for the fun comments on my 'skinny dipping/cycling' shot. I hope everyone was out of the water (and dressed) before the storm came.