Bat watching

First it was going to be a blip of tomatoes in the greenhouse, then it was our intrepid sunflower (self seeded from we know not where) then some very impressive crepuscular (extra) rays at sunset until they were all pipped at the end by this low light shot over the lake at Mote Park at just after 10.00pm this evening as we were out watching bats over the water. I rested the camera on the bridge rail and let it do its thing and after a 50 second exposure this is what it produced. It is much lighter than it really was. We saw loads of bats flitting here, there and everywhere, over the water and above our heads. Magical.

We delayed our walk until the relative cool of the evening as, like many other places it was stiflingly hot, only cooling down a tiny bit around 5.00pm when a bank of thundery looking clouds rolled in. Nothing came of it.

Before it got really hot this morning I cut the stalky bits off the now yellow grass and made a start of putting up guttering on the shed to collect rainwater to feed into the pond as Knottman2 suggested. Why is it that when you want something to be straight, it is the devil's own job to get that spirit level bubble between the lines but when you want a slight drop whatever you do the bubble refuses to budge from between the lines?

I hope the day was not too uncomfortable for you - or at least you saw some sunshine today. At midnight the bedroom is 28c despite windows being open.