Too much the wet stuff

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Localised flooding

cars slosh through street side puddles

wet pedestrians

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by Scooj

Paws for thought

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fine autumn drizzle

dampens a long-dried garden

paw prints in kitchen

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by Scooj

Energy

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White clouds thickening

vast entities in the sky

awesome energy

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by Scooj

Downpour

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Chat interrupted

hammering on the Velux

drainpipes overflow

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by Scooj

Late afternoon

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Late afternoon sun

warms damp lawns and flower beds

fine smells of the earth

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by Scooj

 

Stormy weather

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Enough already

with your raining cats and dogs

plants are well watered

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by Scooj

Breaking cover

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Then down came the rain

and froglets, recently formed,

emerged by magic

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by Scooj

Never happy

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At last the rain comes

a watering holiday

but the slugs and snails

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by Scooj

Ridiculous

Inside the greenhouse

watering seedlings and plants

outside it’s raining

 

by Scooj

 

2863. Easton

Some more archive material. There can only be one reason why this outstanding piece by Dan Kitchner never made it into Natural Adventures, and that is that I can’t remember exactly where in Easton this wall is. No matter, I have overcome this problem with giving it a general ‘Easton’ label.

Dan Kitchener, Easton, Bristol, May 2019
Dan Kitchener, Easton, Bristol, May 2019

The wall is split into a long landscape part with cars in a wet street scene, and a portrait section filling an old bricked-up window space featuring one of his trademark pedestrians with an open umbrella.

Dan Kitchener, Easton, Bristol, May 2019
Dan Kitchener, Easton, Bristol, May 2019

There is something so incredibly atmospheric about these pieces, and living in such a wet country they really resonate with me. They also remind me a little of the original Bladerunner film with its oriental element.

I first saw this a few years back, but never stopped to photograph it. I found it again last year and decided not to make the same mistake. If only I’d written down the road name too!