Hey y'all! I'm back! Anyone miss me?

Between myself and another camper we shot 505 images. Thought I'd share a couple.

This tree was struck by lightning the day we got to camp. The same storm dropped so much hail in one city that they had to move it with front-end loaders like it was snow.




These little guys had the run of the camp. They were everywhere.




And finally I liked how the wild daisies looked.

Welcome back, Tofu!!!...and you have some chop worthy pictures there!

Submit some...look forward to chopping them!

hope you had a great time too!!

Welcome back Tofu, Those pictures are great. Did you get to see the lighting strike the tree?

Nice lightening damage shot!
Welcome Back Fella!

looks like an exciting vacation!

To answer the lightning question of the day. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your POV) we didn't get to see the lightning strike. It happened about 30 minutes to an hour before we arrived at camp. I'm bummed that I didn't get to see the actual strike but I'm also glad that no one was around to get hurt by it.

I should have taken a shot of the ground to show the "blast" effect the lightning had. The ground was scorched and a hole was blown out that you could fit a golf ball into. The ground there is very sandy and I would have dug for the fulgerite but it's a conservation camp and I didn't think they'd be happy with me for digging there.

As for other photos I've got a bunch (505 I think the last count was). I'm going to pick a couple that I took specifically for PSC and resize them down for submission later today.

Dont you just love it when nature does something as crazy as that, sure puts you back in the passenger seat.

my new word for the day....made me look it up, Tofu

ful·gu·rite ( P ) Pronunciation Key (flgy-rt, -g-, fl-)
n.
A slender, usually tubular body of glassy rock produced by lightning striking and then fusing dry sandy soil.

[Latin fulgur, lightning; see fulgurate + -ite1.]

Grew up in the midwest with lots of lightning...never knew about fulgurite.

First thing I thought of Tofu, but it would have been tough to dig so close to the base of the tree, did you guys talk about Camel Spiders at the camp fire?

I found that one in my catbox, and I just don't know how it got there?

You didn't take Satan? Well, that was a total waste of a vacation...

Eve: glad I could help you expand your vocabulary. I've always wanted to find a fulgerite. I think it'd be cool.

PVS: no we didn't talk about camel spiders. BUT there was a cave spider specimen in the "eco-con" area. It was a baby one so it only had a leg span of about 7".

Mason: I was going to take the cloth. But I forgot it.

Oh man....
I have removed hundreds of trees because of lightening death.
I never even thought about those things.
I will start collecting them...if it turns out to be easy to collect them, I'll send ya one.
Our soil is sand...so they should be just about glass..right?

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.Glass can be handy!