This and That ... perhaps of interest ...

Can you imagine that during an earth tremor.

 

Law-Abiding Family of Swans Cross Road at Pedestrian Crossing

 

Many years ago when there were stray dogs still around, while travelling through London a mate of mine said watch the pedestrian crossings.
Sure enough the strays would wait with pedestrian to cross the roads at the crossing places..

 

The Shades of Love

 

More shade ...

 

The tree of Tule in Oaxaca, Mexico, is the tree with the largest trunk diameter in the world. It's circumference reaches almost 60 meters and has a height of 42 meters. It's approximate age is 2,000 years.
Credit: Reddit|Paul-Belgium

Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum)

 

Wow!!!!

 

Strangler Fig Tree (genus Ficus): One of the most remarkable hemiepiphytes is the towering strangler fig tree which starts life as a tiny seed in the canopy of a random tree. The roots grow down to the forest floor where they take root and begin to take nutrients from the soil. Gradually the roots wrap around the host tree, widen, and slowly form a lattice work that surrounds the host's trunk. The fig's crown grows foliage which soon overshadows the tree. Eventually, the host tree dies leaving the fig with a hollow trunk which is easily climbed thanks to the many openings in the trunk. Figs sometimes help anchor tropical trees during bad storms and are often the only tree species remaining after forest clearing, since their knotted and twisted wood is shunned by loggers.
Photo taken by Fred Breglia in Nanning, Guangxi, China.

 

I've just had a hot air balloon go directly over the top of my house, the strange part is a Spitfire was heading directly for it and made quick change of course to avoid it.
The Spitfires are always over here during the summer months, but rarely balloons these days and never in the middle of the day.

 

Melon owl ...

 

That's very clever Vicky.