I want thunder and lightning!

Posted on July 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, heatwave, Life, Lightning, Rain, Relief, Summer, Thunder, Water, Weather, worldwide temperatureLeave a comment

I want the skies to darken, the winds to rise, I want a swirling storm, dancing leaves. Gusts and gales and the patter of heavy raindrops! I thought we were having that earlier but realised it was water pattering down on the kitchen roof from the hose! Instead of watering the plants he was watering the roof! He thought it would cool the air. Its 15°C cooler today than yesterday! We need relief for humans and the countryside. But not just here, worldwide. The trouble is its not just one country suffering.

Thunderstorms were forecast but haven’t happened yet. I’m watching www.http://blitzortung.org to see where the storms are. They seemed to be concentrated around France and Switzerland earlier on…..

Love poppies

Posted on July 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Colours, Favourite, Orange, Poem, Poetry, Poppy, Red, rhymes, White, YellowLeave a comment

Poppies make me smile

They have real style

If I could put them in order

I love white ones with a red border.

I like himalayan blue

I wonder if you do too?

Welsh poppies are yellow

A colour that’s mellow…

Orange from Californian lands

Red sunshine, might grow on sands

But red are my favourite flower

They seem to have a great power.

To me they are iconic

And I’m not being ironic

The colour of Ruby lips

Red blood and rose hips…..

Cornwall in the distance

Posted on July 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beach, Bovisand Bay, Cornwall, Devon, Landscape, People, Plymouth, Rain, Thinking, thunder storms, ViewLeave a comment

Across from Plymouth Sound in Devon sits the County of Cornwall. This is the view from Bovisand Bay. I love the South West of England. I would live there if I could afford it instead of the occasional visits we make every few years. I think it’s the attraction of the sea. We stayed in a caravan site near this bay on summer and saw a massive thunderstorm. The lightning was striking the surface of the water and we could look across the bay and see it hitting the Cornish side. It was like a spectacular light show.

Talking about thunder and lightning, we might be getting thundery showers on Wednesday or Thursday if the weather forecast is correct. I hope we get a decent amount of rain. Not the thing for a beach holiday, but we certainly need some water on the land.

Smile in the sky

Posted on July 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Face, Fun, Image, Mirrored, Pareidolia, Playing, Sky, Smile, SymmetryLeave a comment

I continue to play with multiple photos, mostly I don’t know what I will get as an image. I rotate the photos round. When I do that you get four versions of a picture. In this case by having the dark areas at the top and bottom, and putting the curved white cloud towards the centre I get an apparent smile. But look closely at the horizontal centre of the picture you can vaguely see two eyes? My pareidolia again….

Frazzled but surviving

Posted on July 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blueberries, frazzled, Gardening, Heat, Outdoor plants, Temperature, Tomatoes, WaterLeave a comment

Our back yard is a bit frazzled. The plants are brown in places but we have watered them in the evening. The tomatoes in a little hanging basket have developed but are yet to ripen as are the blueberries that a friend loaned us a few years ago when she moved. I’m still caring for them, I hope she’s OK but we have got out of touch with her. Anyway cool and thundery weather is on the way..

Air Con?

Posted on July 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 40°C, air conditioning?, Heat, Heathrow Airport, heatwave, Hot, Life, UK, Weather8 Comments

Three frozen bottles in front of our fan. It’s not air conditioning, but it’s creating a cooling breeze. It got up to 27°C today so far in our living room. Last night it was 24.7°C. I got up at 5am to open up a indow and the back door to achieve that it had been a degree higher. We have the windows shut and the curtains closed. I know this temperature is nothing compared with other places, but I don’t travel to hot places so it’s a bit of a shock to my system.

In other news it is the hottest day in UK history. It is at 40°C at Heathrow Airport.

We are complaining, but wild fires are burning in France, Spain, Portugal and Greece. If you don’t believe in Global Warming think again.

There’s an old song ‘mad dogs and English men go out in the midday sun’. It’s due to cool down tomorrow.

Hot

Posted on July 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black ink pen, Colour, Dragon, Drawing, ink splodge, jazz, Life, Purple, Sketching, white crayonLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt is hot. dragon is back in my new sketchbook. This one is purple playing ‘hot’ jazz! Ink blotted into the sketchbook then outlined with black fine liner pen and white pencil crayon to add shading.

Red eye

Posted on July 18, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, colour eye finger painting, Drawing, fun red, Life, Monochrome, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

Red velvet coloured eye. Digital doodle, just playing with monochrome colours using one part of the spectrum, a deep red and it’s associated colours with added black and white. I tried to make it look three dimensional to give it a realistic effect. Not bad for a digital finger painting.

Sunset

Posted on July 18, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Choir, Clouds, Evening, Pareidolia, Penkhull, Photo, Shadows, Sky, Sunset, View, WomanLeave a comment

I tried to take a photo earlier on of a real sunburst breaking through the clouds behind our house. But for some reason it didn’t save. So when I came out of choir practice I was pleased to see this.

As usual my pareidolia kicked in. I think I can see a woman floating through the sky. One arm extended, a crown or a cake suspended above it. There are shadows cast by one lot of clouds onto the ones above them, and I love the colours, the dusky pinks and purples especially.