Some beautiful hot day photos

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We are sitting at 34C now at midday and yes it is very hot.
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Heat without water is like a party with no music :)

Oh yes, South Africa is now in the summer season and we could only nip out early this morning, even though it was already hot, to escape the peak temperatures later on.
I could have placed this post in #fascinatinginsects or in #amazingnature, but because the bird photos outnumber the other photos, I have decided to place the post directly into #featheredfriends.
Hope that you will like it.

The first two photos are of a Red veined Dragonfly (Trithemis arteriosa) and in the second photo you can see how the sun turns its body into a pinkish color.
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Right here we go with our resident wild Cape Robin-chats (Cossypha caffra) in the bird bath.
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Robbie and his wife surely enjoyed the water and the sun is so sharp that we have to refill the bird bath 3 times a day.
I cannot put a canopy, or umbrella over the bath, as they will not see the arrival of any predators or raptors.
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Finally we had this little squirrel lamely lying on her full stomach in the heat.
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But not so lame as not to watch a chancer grabbing one of her nuts on the window sill. She already ate many nuts, but she felt that all of the nuts were hers.
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And yes, I told this story in a conversational tone in order to afford you, the reader a chance to tell me what you are doing to escape the heat.
Then the post will also serve as a mind and heart warmer for our friends up north that are now sitting in the snow. Just remember that your summer will also once again make it's return.

A happy Saturday to all and that's all friends.

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.

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Wonderful dragonfly. It's looking so beautiful. The color of birds also so amazing. Nice photography

Thank you and yes, nature has beautiful residents.

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Lovely photos and post, Zac.
The dragonfly is beautiful, but today I like the second photo of the robins most ... and the look of the squirrel up to her nuts ☺️

I don't need to escape the heat because we have -3C today 😁


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I decided to just put a mix up there in the post today my friend and it seems that some people like it.
Oh yes I was wondering when you would start to tease me about your lovely cool weather 🤣

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It's easier to put more and more layers of clothes on against the cold but when it's hot you can't get more naked than naked 🤣


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Hahaha, your reasoning is good as yes, naked is naked methinks 🤣

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I have learned a trick today: you could wrap yourself in wet newspaper and the wind will cool you down 😁


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Ha, then you fall asleep all wrapped up and some young explorers discover what they think is a mummy.
Then they give you a Formaldehyde injection to prevent the mummy from falling apart during transit and you wake up in a glass coffin in an Egyptian museum 🤣🤣🤣

All because one piece of the newspaper that you wrapped yourself with was an article on King Pharaoh 🤣

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But it would be fun to scare the visitors of the museum by just opening the eyes or let a fart ... 🤣


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We have had a good weather sometimes rain for two weeks. However, it seems it will snow next week.

I bet that you are looking forward to the snow.

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Not really, I don't like when it is very cold. However, we need snow for the course of nature. We need water in dams for the coming summer.

Yes snow is needed and you have to endure as it as for a logical reason.
Our problem is getting hotter every summer season. Unbearable.

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Always amazing how the world works as we are -15C!!! Great shots!

Wow! Ice cold and we eventually reached 37C and still hot now at 7:38 pm.
The climate changes and seasons over the world continues to amaze me.

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Yikes! thats pushing 100F!!!! Its funny @dswigle just did a post saying where is summer... Apparently it is camped out at your house!!! Cheers!

Scary my friend, very scary and they say that it is getting hotter every year.
I would love to send @dswigle some sun and will have to think of a way to get it to her :)

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Oh, I hear that you are very creative. :) I hesitate to give you another comment to answer, but, being I like you, I thought, why not??

I didn't post last night and I haven't been on to answer comments in two days. You caught me trying to play catch up!

We had temperatures like that for a long time last year and it was pretty dreadful.

Same same my friend and I never mind :)

Yes, leaving the comments for two days must be a nightmare to catch up with. I also had that during the black out days and one can so quickly lose touch. Then it's an issue to build it up again.
So I try my best to answer every day, but due to our time differences, most of the comments are a day old.
Fortunately my crowd got used to it 😊

And they are telling us that with global warming the heat will be increasing annually here. Soon we will be living in hell. In this heat veldfires increase and at the moment the residents of Kleinmond, a seaside town are worried, as there is a major fire in the Overstrand mountains that are crawling closer to the town. So we are all praying for rain.

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I will pray along with you because my mother-in-law and her family live in Southern California where they have wildfires every year and it's scary frankly. So that is a big worry and I am so behind on my comments, always. I will catch up.

Very scary for folks to lose everything that they have worked their whole life for. Interesting Kleinmond is a village where many retired reverends, pastors and priests live.
The good news is that they had 200 firefighters that contained the fire on the outskirts of the town and it seems that they are going to beat the fire, as it is cooler today with no strong winds.

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Nature is just so therapeutic isn’t it. I’ve tried photographing dragonflies before, it’s all down to the time of day. Never succeeded. Maybe this year.

Absolutely, a place of solace and truth. We have the dragonflies all day and one must just know how to look for them. I hope that you will get some on camera this year and if not then !LOLZ

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