Summer Photo Thread 2015 (NYC, Mobile, beach, area)

[Morningrise]

The dryness continues in Vancouver...

[nei]

cloudy morning



After about 9:30 the clouds broke, and it was off and on sunshine. By noon there was a big thundercloud nearby



raining to the north

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sky got darker. Heard thunder, but rain just missed us.



poured after another storm a few hours later. Another light rain storm around 7:30, just light rain for half an hour





nice clouds but too dark for my phone camera to capture without lots of grain

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[Guajara]

Grass is getting brown here aswell, and Munich has a summer precipitation peak. This summer has been really dry.

[flamingGalah!]

Originally Posted by G8RCAT

I expect posters would know what the Pentagon is and not refer to it as a "giant car park"...

All I saw in the photo was a massive motorway system, a massive car park & the edge of a building, it could have been any building... I know what the Pentagon is & looks like, but pardon me if I don't recognise from its car park & one wall...

[Donar]

Originally Posted by Morningrise

The dryness continues in Vancouver...

That looks even drier than here, are there also trees with yellow leaves in Vancouver by now?





This is exactly where the Limes Germanicus ran in ancient times

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I tried to locate the Limes-remains in our forest here based on maps and I'm pretty sure this unreconisable hill is it:



More Roman stuff from here, ruins of a Roman bath:

Riparian Forest:


Wondered about this odd looking plant, apparently it is Datura stramonium:

Originally Posted by nei

raining to the north

Wow, nice cloud.
After 100 °F tomorrow and Friday, I should get an eagerly awaited thunderstorm on Saturday.

[Cambium]

Resting inside right now in the AC this is how I feel lately about the weather.

[nei]

I need to take a photo and draw a happy face on it. Nice drawing, btw

[Joe90]

Originally Posted by Donar

That looks even drier than here, are there also trees with yellow leaves in Vancouver by now?





This is exactly where the Limes Germanicus ran in ancient times

Spoiler

I tried to locate the Limes-remains in our forest here based on maps and I'm pretty sure this unreconisable hill is it:



More Roman stuff from here, ruins of a Roman bath:

Riparian Forest:


Wondered about this odd looking plant, apparently it is Datura stramonium:





Wow, nice cloud.
After 100 °F tomorrow and Friday, I should get an eagerly awaited thunderstorm on Saturday.

Good photos. It would be good to see some Roman ruins. The only ones I've seen, were prop ones at an Italian restaurant -not quite the same.

That Datura is called Jimson here -one of the trippy ones.

[alphatier]

Originally Posted by Donar

Wondered about this odd looking plant, apparently it is Datura stramonium:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

In some parts of Europe and India, Datura has been a popular poison for suicide and murder. From 1950 to 1965, the State Chemical Laboratories in Agra, India, investigated 2,778 deaths caused by ingesting Datura.

Really odd plant. The fruit looks a bit like that of a chestnut.

In the United States, the plant is called jimson weed, or more rarely Jamestown weed; it got this name from the town of Jamestown, Virginia, where British soldiers consumed it while attempting to suppress Bacon's Rebellion. They spent 11 days in altered mental states.

[Sickandtiredofthis]