Night Storm

.... woke us up at 3am, but it was a weird one, sheet lightning and silhouettes of the mountains. The brightness from behind the cloud is from the descending moon. A night for bewitching and be-wizarding, and not much sleep!

Thanks to everyone who put the Apollo butterfly on the first popular page to sun herself. I doubt they will have been flying today, it has been raining most of the time. Just managed to plant the second crop of potatoes and beans between showers then a massive sort out of space in an attempt to sort family slides from 1970s onwards. Now about to flop in front of the telly...