Posted: 6^th August 2018

Look Up, Look Down, Look Around

No matter where you look – and where on the planet you're standing – the view will surprise you. How do we know? Because this week, Researchers from all over the place have been looking, and taking pictures, and telling us astounding things. And now you get to enjoy them, too. Feel privileged. I do, every time those hummingbirds flit over in my direction, stop and hover, and hum 'hi!' at me. Also when I finally manage to catch the next-door neighbour's groundhog out for a visit. We have lovely things to share this week, so let's get to them. Summer's being good to us.

• Now, I said 'summer', but where Willem is in South Africa, it's winter. That doesn't mean what it would for those of us in the north temperate zone. Instead of snow and ice, Willem has exciting plants to look at. So he took a trip to the Makgeng region, camera in hand, and came back with this stunning photo essay. You don't want to miss this. We also understand he's been selling paintings at his latest exhibition. Way to go, Willem, and remember: you saw them here first!
• SashaQ is still experimenting with cameras and flowers. You're going to like the results, and maybe learn something.
• Your roving Editor has been pointing the camera around the Pennsylvania town- and countryside. Admire the groundhog: he's shy, but I finally captured his picture, along with some flowers and the hummingbirds and stuffz.
• The sky above Planet Earth is also photogenic. The other night, Sho stepped out of an Ed Sheeran concert, looked up, and snapped the ISS flying by. There are people in that lighted dot, wow.
• Speaking of lighted dots: you definitely want to try out the video quiz. Once you've nailed that one, do the other two. Art and diplomacy are on the agenda this week.

• Bluebottle's found out the secret of Isle of Wight road safety: squirrel-operated cameras.
• Freewayriding reaches back into his travel album to share a curious incident in Florida. We think he was triggered by the recent UK weather and a discussion of 'Deliverance'….
• bobstafford has a reminiscence for us, too: this story takes us all the way back to the Second World War and involves airplanes.
• Paigetheoracle explains about arachnophobia, and then tickles your funnybone with a very punny story.

August Create Challenge: Alternate Adventures

Dmitri Gheorgheni

• Colours of Wildlife:
  A Trip to the
  Makgeng Region
  

• Join the Q:
  Gerbera Experiments
  
  

• Roving Reporter:
  Summer Farm
  Report
  

• Camera at Work:
  Groundhog Sighting
  
  

HEADY STUFF

• 24 Lies a Second

Déjà vu all over again.

• Picture Quiz

Meet the Wigglemuch.

• Post Quiz

Talking foreign policy.

• Video Quiz

Take a guess.

UNUSUAL SIGHTINGS

• Sing Hallelujah
  

• Down Alligator Alley
  

• Look Up!
  

• Look Out!
  

• h2g2 Anecdote

Get back on the plane.

• Writing Right
  with Dmitri

Would you believe?

• Literary Corner

Lost Duchess, Found.

• h2g2 Story

Ideal Holmes.

• Gheorgheniplex

Jalopy nightmare.

• Art History 101

Sage Force.

• Caption Challenge

Restful.

• Cartoon Corner

Hey, Rosemary.

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For submissions and editorial feedback

• Anxiety Report
  


Arachnophobia.