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Posted on July 10, 2021July 13, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Garden, Hanging baskets, Hot, Humid, Photo, Plants, Rain, Weather, Wilting, YardLeave a comment

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And humid

Watering the yard

The moisture level outside is about 85%, I’ve got the fan on and the windows closed to keep the heat out. All my hanging baskets had wilted this afternoon despite heavy rain a couple of days ago. Sorry to go on about my garden but I enjoy showing it off. It does need work though. X

We don’t have droughts like other countries but we do sometimes have heathland fires occasionally. We are more prone to flooding. Apparently we have tornadoes but I’ve never seen one and they’re only small scale here.

Weather, what the British talk about. X

No cherries yet!

Posted on July 6, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cherries, Damp, Food, Gardening, not ripe, Plants, Rain, Red, Tasty, Umbrella, Weather, WetLeave a comment

Sadly today we just have a few green cherries on our tree. They are not ripening because of the cool wet weather. Apparently we are on the north side of the jet stream and so low pressure systems are being drawn down from scandanavia towards the UK.

So we sit and wait. If I manage to pick any of this years crop I will post pictures of it. At the moment I’m using our umbrella for its correct use. Not for catching cherries.

My secret garden (mirrored)

Posted on July 4, 2021July 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back yard, Colours, Flowers, Gardening, Layout app, Plants, Rain, Summer, symmetrical, Weather, WetLeave a comment

By duplicating and flipping one side of the couple of photos I ended up with an interesting structure (in reality next doors small extension bathroom). The hanging baskets and pots pop with green and bright flowers. As they grow and bloom I will post more pictures (and include more if the rain stops!). Summer is here so they should take up more space. Gardening and rain, a typical British summer.

Wet!

Posted on July 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Climate change, Environment, heavy shower, Life, Nature, Photo, Rain, Torrential rain, wetter than before2 Comments

Rain rain go away come again another day, or go to where its needed on the West Coast of the United States and Canada. I don’t think I’ll be walking far this afternoon. Watching the tour de France on the TV… And it’s raining heavily there too.

Thunderstorms are forecast here later in the day.

It’s amazing how much heavier rain seems these days, I remember rain in the past being relatively light compared with this! We live on a hill but the road looked like a river a few minutes ago (OK that’s overdoing it, a small stream). Off to get a towel to dry off!

A rhyme remembered

Posted on May 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Doodle, edited on photodirector, Fed up, nursery rhyme, pouring, Rain, Rhyme, Sketch, WetLeave a comment

It’s been raining here for days! From when I happened to say to a friend at the end of April, ‘we really need some rain, the farmers are worried they haven’t had enough for their crops’.

Be wary of what you ask for.

Now I remember the old rhyme we used to say when it was always raining ‘rain, rain, go away, come again another day’! It has poured down so hard today you can hear it thrumming on the kitchen roof and battering the windows… Enough! I want to go for a walk!

Gate house

Posted on May 15, 2021May 18, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, cemetery, Clematis, Death, Life, Photo, Rain, Sad, somber, TimeLeave a comment

View of the gatehouse of the cemetery with masses of Clematis Montana? growing up and around trees in the grounds. Splendid gates and brick pillars add to the impression of a proud building. I enjoyed walking through the cemetery tonight, in a gentle rain. The somber clouds echoing the place.

I like the subtle colours in this photo, mostly muted except for the lime greens of some of the newly grown leaves, sulphurous and alive, balancing out the pinks, greys and browns. It had just stopped raining (we had been sheltering under a tree when I took this photo). I dont know what I think of buildings in cemeteries, could anyone acyually live there or is it offices? and who locks up the gates at night- is there an official gate keeper?

Raining

Posted on April 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ?, Block editor?, Digital drawing, drawn, how do I? Pane, Life, Pain, Poem, Rain, Rhyme, WordPressLeave a comment

Digital sketch filtered through photodirector.

I decided to write a verse
Which might seem rather perverse..
I'm learning the ropes 
For knowledge I grope. 
About WordPress block editor
And I might need a mediator?
It's like very heavy rain
It can be an absolute pain! 
Storm clouds gather 
I'm in a lather
Maybe I should write this again? 
Is there anything at all to gain.....

Old watercolour

Posted on April 21, 2021April 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drought, Flowers, grey skies, Painting, Rain, rain clouds, Water, Watercolour sketchLeave a comment

I miss rainclouds, full of dark grey promise. We’ve had a few weeks of dry weather and apart from a few spots of rain this morning we’ve had nothing. With that and the cold, frosty mornings, it’s taking a while for the plants to grow. We have a few seedlings, but when I went to a garden nursery they had hardly any perennial plants ready for growing on. I for one am hoping for rain soon.

Birds

Posted on April 10, 2021April 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bird, Birds, Breeze, Digital drawing, Drawings, Poem, Poetry, purple and green, Rain, ShowersLeave a comment

Digital drawings of birds, using ArtRage oils and then my sketcher app.

Birds sing

Rain falls

Washes the air

Bird song

Crystal sounds

Twinkle like stars

On the breeze.

Down the river trent

Posted on March 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, four and a half miles, Life, Litter, Rain, River, River Trent, Tired, Walking, wet and windy, willowsLeave a comment

Our four and a half mile walk today. Along the river Trent and back along side streets. The river had fallen trees across it. There was litter and willow trees springing to life. Not exactly the romantic scene I imagined.

The Trent starts nearby and wends it way north and east till it reaches the North sea at Hull. I wonder how long it takes a molicule of water to travel along its whole length… One of the things you ponder as you walk along!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Rain

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