I wasn´t surprised when I saw the thunderclouds, but it took long time for them to move at all. It just stood there and thundered all the time.

It´s a bit cooler today, but not much. Wouldn´t be surprised if we got thunder today too. There were some spectacular flashes og lightning yesterday. The clouds didn´t move much so I had a clear vieuw of all flashes hitting Mount Mösseberg. I´m glad I wasn´t anywhere near them :-)

Suddenly they started to move west and some other thunderclouds from the east came closer instead.

Magnificent don´t You think?

My dogs and cats don´t seeme to be bothered by thunder at all. I had a neighbour here once that had a hunting dog that was so afraid of thunder that he shouted the whole time. Unfortunally the owner thought he would get used to thunder if he forced him to stay out in the dogyard during thunderstorms. He stopped when we realised that he actully was at home but never let the dog in. Doing so is cruel to the poor dog. When he understood that we wouldn´t exept that behaviour from him he stopped.

The thunder kept on all night and we did get some long wanted rain.

This flower is called Student carnation or Burning love in swedish. With that red color I think the last name is best :-)

I feel a bit lucky today. I came to work as usual and painted everything I could find and when my workingday was over there were nothing left to paint. So I took the day of tomorrow :-) :-) So now I only have three more workingdays and then four weeks of vacation :-)

Trollius chinensis, Globeflower, about to open up.

Almost totally open now.

Buddleia alternifolia a less known realtive to B. davidii, the Butterfly bush. This is hardier than the Butterfly bush so even I can have it. Butterflies love this one too even if it smells like hay :-)

My bush is rather young yet, so it´s not especially impressive. It flowers on the stems that growed last year. So if winter is hard there might not be any flowers the year after.

I´m mostly staing at home during my vacation, but I´ll take a trip way up north to friends that live half way up the country. I promise to take pictures on my little road trip so You get a chans to see how it looks over here. Well I´m a Harry Potter fan too, so I´ll probably go to see the new film , I´ll tell You what I think about it here too :-)

Have a great day now and to all my American friends I wish a happy 4th of July!