Sheet Lightning and a Slug

OK, the sheet lightning and the slug did not happen on the same day and I did not get a photo or video of the sheet lightning. The sheet lightning was this morning. When I checked to see if my memory of the term was correct I found that it is correct but also called heat lightning. In either case, it is just lightning that is so far away that it only light the clouds and no thunder is heard so it's like a sheet of light crossing the sky in silence. There was a lot this morning and it seemed to be coming from several directions but mostly in the west so I suspect we might get some of the regular lightning, thunder and rain sometime in the near future.

The slug? I found it last Thursday on a One-seeded Bur Cucumber down by the Grand River. It was eating it's way across a leaf and just happened to be thinking about taking a short cut across an open space when I saw it.

Another New Start?

OK, I am dusting this blog off again. I stopped putting photo on Flickr a couple of months ago as they changed their format and started jamming all the photos together with hardly any white space in between them. It offends my sense of how to look at photos and photos often jar each other when they are that close. Now Facebook has decided to share all the photos and act as if they are their property instead of mine so I think I am going to return to doing more work on this blog. I realize that photos can be stolen from here just as easily but the public exposure will be a lot less and I shall not be using words to describe my photos in the uploads but only in the text of the blog. I am hoping that will reduce the number of hits by unwanted people. I suspect that bots can still search the text of blogs but maybe less here than on Facebook. We'll see what happens . . .

Here is a photo of a Preying Mantis that I had up the other day on FB.

Saturday April 27

Robins,

Cardinals,

Wild Turkeys,

Morning Doves,

A Rooster,

A very noisy train.

White-throated Sparrows

Singing & some flying further north.

Sent from my iPhone

Early morning

Cool

4 degrees below freezing

Robins, Cardinals, Woodcocks

Announcing morning

No wind or snow like yesterday

Spring struggling in