The combination of the current unusual heat wave and recurring gout issues makes me wake up at night ... OK, whatever night there is now towards the end of June.
I went out on Ruth's porch to cool down and gather my senses, and found it easy to shoot her recently planted flower arrangements with the überfast Rodenstock TV-Heligon 50/0.75. This image was captured precisely 02:57 and I managed to shoot at 1/80sec with the f/0.75 lens and ISO 100. Background bokeh is -- bokehish 
Speaking of heat and difficulties sleeping...
Last Thursday night, on Friday morning around 1:00 AM our area was treated to a strong storm with winds up to 80mph. With daylight we found a large section of a pecan tree now deposited on the back yard furniture and my wife's pot plants. Also a number of smaller broken branches scattered in the front and back yards and the roof of the house. Mixed were shingles from nearby houses. In the distance dozens of snapped oak and pecan trees were seen. Our friends across the street had recently had lots of work done in their back yard, building a studio and setting up gardens with landscaping. Half a huge pecan tree was now laying across it all with damage to buildings and gardens. It's the same all over this neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods--trees and power poles on buildings and in the street. We have at least two large broken branches of our pecan tree still hanging overhead, preventing us from going out in our back lawn.
To add insult to injury, Saturday brought a killer heatwave. Heat indices exceeded 109 degrees Fahrenheit--I dunno Celsius...I'm stuck in "old money" units. Just think
hot. Included in these wonderful and unexpected natural gifts was an area wide electrical power outage. We depend on air conditioning around here to survive the humid summers. But we we lost it along with the lights and everything else in our all-electric home. Seems several main transmission lines were brought down by the storm. Our power came back Monday afternoon, thankfully. But we had spent three miserable nights with little sleep--Thursday due to the storm and Friday and Saturday due to the heat, humidity and dead still air. The body tries to regulate temperature with perspiration evaporating to cool it. When the humidity is this high and the air is dead still there is no evaporation. Sweat just soaks your clothes and skin, stays there feeling clammy and making you damp and smelling like the south end of a north bound goat.
But enough whining on my part. Things have improved for us although many are still without electricity here in town and the surrounding area. The power company has done a great job so far, cleaning up the downed trees and lines.
I did get out and snap one picture during this whole crisis. A few little mushrooms popped up in one of the few unbroken flower pots my wife had been so carefully tending. Life goes on, you know.
