I’ve just returned from a week in my home country of Plumas County, California. We had a bit of lightning.
There was barely one second between the flash and the thunder on this strike. This photo was taken from the property where I was staying. This lightning storm lasted a good twenty minutes at least. This was the closest strike. Fortunately most of the lightning was cloud-to-cloud.
It took many people and not a few pieces of firefighting equipment to knock this “small” fire down over the next couple of days. It flared up and spread, the next day, following the initial suppression.
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Fortunately, this was about the worst it got. There had been another lightning fire only a few miles away three days earlier that claimed several structures. I count myself lucky that this one didn’t result in a major blazer.
Then the sun came back out and I found something else to photograph.
A specie of Legionnaire fly, to the best of my ability to i.d.
Large Skipper
Honeybee on sunflower
Tiny lichen on quartz. Beer can shown for scale.
There were bats, too, but I couldn’t get a photo of them so I had to settle for a bat house.
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