Nature Notes ~ 2 Rain

Please ENLARGE, especially the landscapes to
appreciate the datails.



At last, like manna from heaven, the rains came.
So long awaited by the parched land and us.



Nature instantly reasserted itself with everything
bursting into leaf whether it was the right time to do
so or not. All that had survived the drought was doing
its level best to catch up after that long period of leafless
dormancy in summer, Roses are flowering two months
early.

I found this huge European wasp in the sink on a warm day.
European wasps are a rather nasty import here and have a
way of not just stinging once, but pumping their poison into one
repeatedly. This one was over an inch long.



The sustained rain changed the barren landscape
from this,



into the fields of Elyssium almost over night.

These Pansies having barely survived on sink water, were

af last getting a decent shower to wash off the accumulated

dust and give them a much needed wash through with

sparkling clean water.

Here's hoping for good follow up rains as well.

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