I am sooooooo envious of anybody who's had any rain at all recently. We had one heavy downpour in May but nothing since.
All the local ponds and small water courses are drying / dried up. Even mature shrubs and trees and the local hedgerows are flagging and most of the clay soil is like concrete. Everything just looks exhausted and shrivelled to a crisp. Horrid.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
We just had proper rain \o/ Not enough to put the fire out but enough to moisten things a bit. I strung up a tarp and gathered an extra watering can full to top the pond up a bit. It all smells fresh and rainy outside now
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The Sun says showers today in the south east, sunny periods, we have a bit of white fluffy cloud now, sky has been cloudless for weeks, what about St Swithins Day!!! My neighbour saw on TV its going to rain on Wednesday.
I had a four hour storm - thunder, lightning, rain of biblical proportions from 10-2 today - had to take OH to the airport in the middle, negotiating flooded bendy country roads on the way back in near zero visibility. At 2pm, the skies cleared, the sun blazed and the dog had to have her play in the pool to cool off. It’s a mad, mad world.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
We had a bit of wind and the sky looked as if it might gather some clouds together for a storm. I even thought I smelled rain in the air. It was probably just the freshly watered garden. No rain here since May. 🌂
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Long may they continue.
All the local ponds and small water courses are drying / dried up. Even mature shrubs and trees and the local hedgerows are flagging and most of the clay soil is like concrete. Everything just looks exhausted and shrivelled to a crisp. Horrid.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”