Just a quickie, in case you had heard of that awful earthquake in Turkey today. Luckily it didn't affect Mandi too much. She told me that the electric was the first to go, then without much time, she suddenly was thrown around her room. Luckily she was close to the tv, which had suddenly started to wobble!!!!, so she grabbed it to prevent it from falling over.
Dogan rushed home to check she was okay. Although Izmir is about 2 hours away from them, they are on the same fault-line, so feel it too. The reason so many people died in Izmir was probably due to the fact that they have high skyscrapers. Whereas where Mandi and Dogan live, the local law is that they can't build over 2 floors in height, so therefore - not many of them have any damage when earthquakes strike. So apart from the obvious ornaments etc falling off units, there is rarely any damage to the houses. Thank heavens.
Anyway - she rang me this afternoon to tell me that they were fine, scared but fine. It was the worst one either of them had experienced, but they were safe. They've had a couple of aftershocks since then - but each one is slightly less than the previous one. She's getting used to them now, but today's was a particularly bad one.
I wish you all a very safe and calm weekend.
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Thank you for the comments about my butterfly pictures! :) Insects in general can be very hard to photograph if they are flighty at all so I'm not surprised you've not gotten a picture of these "flowers with wings" :D Usually I look like a crazy person as I try to follow one here and there, almost always to no success. But then something like this happens and it's holding still--thinking it's not visible because it's not moving...and I can slowly creep in, taking pictures as I get closer and closer...until either I cannot get any closer without disturbing it, or it flies away on its own. It's just nice to have a success after so many failed attempts! :)
Glad you liked the wasp gall too...next time you're under your oak tree, spend some time staring up at the branches and at the leaves on the ground. You may see some globes if you're focused on trying to find one. But I don't know how common the wasps are that create the galls, so there may not be any to find. Oh! I looked up Devon and what do you know? The Devon Wildlife Trust shows some pictures of a few galls they got pictures of on their Twitter page: twitter.com/DevonWildlife/status/1312678885495123968
Interesting! Wonder if you can find some, kind of fun to search for them! :)
Jenny McIntyre club has replied to Janet Brien clubWell I can't crawl or trail after butterflies I'm afraid, and it is annoying when they are just within reach of my camera and then they decide to fly away!!!!
Thanks for having looked up Devon, and I recognise some of them. So I have seen them, just not realised what they were. There are so many different kinds aren't there?
Janet Brien club has replied to Jenny McIntyre clubAnd about the wasp galls...there are about 1300 species of gall wasps (800 in Europe, the rest in the US) but I think that many of them produce the same type of gall. I've never seen a web page that shows pictures of all of the galls but if you'd like to see a few, Wiki has some pictures at the bottom of their very informative page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall_wasp
Jenny McIntyre club has replied to Janet Brien clubYes I looked up the wasp galls and it was really surprising to see exactly how many different types there are - some can be big and some small - really great variety. Please stay safe, especially as there are people boarding up their windows in case tomorrow becomes violent after the vote.
Jenny McIntyre club has replied to GracieEarthquakes, even in an area where they are quite common, are still a very frightening experience. (I've not experienced anything more than the aftershocks in North Wales, some years ago).
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