Lugsbug

Lots of flooding in Piemonte last week. We live next to the Bormeda River (lets buy a house next to a river I said!) and it broke its banks again. The water came right up to the house but thankfully didn't get any higher. The picture is of the river about to come into the garden

Bob

Fall colours are not terrible around here.

macliam

They build 'em tough around here!

macliam

The gift that just keeps giving......

bobthetog

Had a great display of the northern lights in Jasper Alberta Canada!

el collado kid

WOW i like that.I would love to sit with a few beers and listen to music and watch that! What sort of temperature is it??

bobthetog

Is cooling off and snow in the higher elevations, temps are in the single digits.

el collado kid

cool photo though! I prefer at least high double digits.

scrubbedexpat091

I was bored so I looked through all of my old fish stuff, took some houseplants and potting soil and used an old 10 gallon aquarium I had and made a little forest. I think it turned out okay.

Nutmegger

It's beautiful -- love the waterfall. Nice work!

el collado kid

Do you know what that butterfly is called we get swarms of them at the right time of year .Great pic.

macliam

If Google is to be believed it's Papilio Machaon, the Old World Swallowtail...... although all the pictures show the wing spots as red rather than orange........ maybe this one was a bit threadbare!

Saying which, in case it was overlooked, the reason for my comment was that it had a big chunk of its wing tip missing ..... yet was still flying well enough to lead me a merry dance!

Expatrick

Presumably flying in circles!

macliam

No, I was amazed how well it compensated - it took ages to get those pics!!

Anything less agile would have been cat food!

scrubbedexpat091

Thanks. I love water features, originally I was just going to do a little jar version, but then I had an empty 10 gallon aquarium, and misc fish stuff and left over potting soil from summer, the only things I had to actually buy were the ferns, but they were only $2.50.

I am thinking since I can't have a big aquarium filled with water, that maybe one day, I will just buy 125 gallon aquarium and just turn it into a forest, would be a nice feature in a living room, 6 foot long indoor forest......that would be cool.