Dodging the showers
Apr. 7th, 2024 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heleninwalesAs next week looks wet, I decided to drive part way to Quaker meeting, park in the lay-by and walk the rest of the way. Miraculously, there was even some sun.
My phone camera tends to get overexcited by green countryside. I actually toned this down a little as it was not realistic straight from the camera.
A small flock of rams enjoying a fleeting moment of sunshine after the storm. There were ewes and lambs in the field on the other side of the road, but at this time of year the rams are kept apart in their own little bachelor flock.
I don't know why the boulder has been surrounded by warning cones. Did someone not see it and try to drive towards the old bridge? Before lockdown, you could drive on as far as the bollards in the distance where there was a small parking area popular with locals. Unfortunately, during the period when travel was limited, people started staying there in their camper vans. There is a small car park which has a height bar over the entrance which prevents tall vehicles entering, but that's further to walk if you have mobility problems. Yet another case of the selfish and entitled people spoiling things for others.
In the time it took me to walk the 100 metres or so to the bridge, the sun had disappeared again behind the clouds. The river level is very high. Usually you have to drop down from the field onto a beach of pebbles, but the water has risen right to the top of the bank. The water in the distance shouldn't be there, but those fields always flood after very heavy rain, so no damage is done.
There were just the usual four of us at meeting, but it's nice to sit in silence and I find it calming.
After we'd chatted and drunk tea and eaten the shortbread biscuits I'd taken, I just managed to walk back to the car before the rain started again.
My phone camera tends to get overexcited by green countryside. I actually toned this down a little as it was not realistic straight from the camera.
A small flock of rams enjoying a fleeting moment of sunshine after the storm. There were ewes and lambs in the field on the other side of the road, but at this time of year the rams are kept apart in their own little bachelor flock.
I don't know why the boulder has been surrounded by warning cones. Did someone not see it and try to drive towards the old bridge? Before lockdown, you could drive on as far as the bollards in the distance where there was a small parking area popular with locals. Unfortunately, during the period when travel was limited, people started staying there in their camper vans. There is a small car park which has a height bar over the entrance which prevents tall vehicles entering, but that's further to walk if you have mobility problems. Yet another case of the selfish and entitled people spoiling things for others.
In the time it took me to walk the 100 metres or so to the bridge, the sun had disappeared again behind the clouds. The river level is very high. Usually you have to drop down from the field onto a beach of pebbles, but the water has risen right to the top of the bank. The water in the distance shouldn't be there, but those fields always flood after very heavy rain, so no damage is done.
There were just the usual four of us at meeting, but it's nice to sit in silence and I find it calming.
After we'd chatted and drunk tea and eaten the shortbread biscuits I'd taken, I just managed to walk back to the car before the rain started again.
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Date: 2024-04-08 04:50 pm (UTC)Yes, cameras really struggle to cope with green grass! I usually have to tone down the saturation a touch to make it look less artificial.
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Date: 2024-04-09 12:51 pm (UTC)