The wind had dropped today. Unfortunately it was not available to send the leaden clouds on their way. They hung overhead, shedding rain all day. Initially not much more than drizzle fell, so Jackie continued her autumn clearance and I joined her for a while. I brought the heavy precipitation with me, but stayed out until I feared for my camera lens.
Hoping that it was Nugget who had made inroads into it, Jackie gleefully pointed to another dish of sampled robin food.
She is heavily pruning a hebe alongside the Dead End Path.
I had intended to transport the clippings to the end of the back drive and bag them up for Aaron to take away. When the deluge began I thought better of it.
Raindrops had cleansed and bejewelled such as bronze fennel seed heads;
rhododendron leaves and buds that think it is spring;
maple leaves;
spiders’ webs;
rose hips;
rose buds;
fuchsias;
begonias;
petunias;
and phormiums.
After lunch I accompanied Jackie to Tesco Supermarket where she she shopped and I sat in the car photographing, through the rain-dripping windscreen,
other shoppers as they passed by.
We then drove to Woodpeckers to visit Mum who was on very good form.
Just along Sway Road a duo of decidedly damp donkeys sought what shelter they could beneath the trees of Brackendale.
Back at home I watched a recording of the Rugby World Cup match between Ireland and Samoa.
We dined on Jackie’s perfect pork paprika liberally peppered with cayenne; boiled potatoes; carrots al dente; and tender runner beans. The Culinary Queen drank Hoegaarden and I drank Grand Conseiller Pinot Noir 2017.
I so appreciate reading your posts. It is like your life is out of a storybook, surrounded by beauty, loving relationship, good food, adorable animals you are blessed to see on your drive bys…………thank you for sharing!
Very many thanks, Wendi. Much appreciated
always a pleasure to read your posts………even when I don’t leave a comment.
🙂
Unbelievably it’s been dry here all day. We cop it tomorrow.
So do we – only fair, I suppose. Thanks a lot, Gary.
You made good use of the wet weather to produce interesting images
Thanks very much, Tootlepedal
Hi there – quite an artsy post with flowers and leaves and the water!
loving the “bejewelled such as bronze fennel seed heads”
and the [ics through the window (made me want to wipe the window once or twice – lol) but was such a creative post…
Thanks very much, Yvette. I’m pleased the window ones worked for you – they were a bit of a risk
so creative – and I have three photos I took of my hubs through a rainy, unwired window – and he gets closer and closer. I just love the images
🙂
All of your photos are terrific, but the first one of Jackie is the best! What a great picture of her. Maybe you should turn that into a puzzle, Derrick. 🙂 A lot of people are stirring around for such a rainy day.
Saturday shopping, Jill. In our case, needing mushrooms for dinner 🙂 Thanks very much.
Love the little drops on the plants.
Thank very much, Rabirius
My vista for the past two weeks looks much like yours and there is still another week to go…… I feel how that donkey looks! Good news on the robin feeding front <3
Thanks very much, Pauline X
Hi Jackie, hello Nugget. I love the spider’s web.
Thanks very much, Arlene
Our opposites of seasons always fascinates me Derrick, I’m just about to “drive” to our bayside beach and enjoy the afternoon sunshine… 22’C here today…..
Perfect, Ivor. Thanks very much
You never cease to impress and inspire with the way you open up possibilities using your camera. And your artist’s eye, of course. If you had to go with only a beginner level camera, new technology or old, what would it be?
Jackie takes hers with a Canon SX740AS. A point and shoot which often produces better images than mine. Like me, she keeps it on automatic. Thanks very much, Oglach
Thank you, Derrick.
Yah, donkeys! I also love your rain-bejeweled close ups.
Thanks very much, Sheree
Beautiful rainy day garden photos. Raindrops add their own beauty to garden residents, including the spiderwebs.
Those sweet little donkeys do look a little wet! And glad to hear your Mum is doing well.
Thank you very much, Lavinia
Trust you to turn rain drenched flora and fauna into glittering mementos of Nature.
🙂 Many thanks, Uma
Derrick, I guess you are the best when it comes to capture raindrops. I simply fell in love with all raindrops photographs. I think you should frame a few of them.
Thanks very much, Dee. I just found this in the Spam
It’s ok Derrick, that happens. Once your comment was also in spam on my post. Till then I was not aware that just like that comments go in spam. I was under the impression that something was wrong with my website ?
I check it daily 🙂
We too had a generous share of rain yesterday and now, Sunday at 8:089, it’s still coming down after a whole night of it.
Same here, John. Thanks very much
I love the photos of Jackie and especially the second, you managed to capture the concentration on her face.
The raindrops on the flowers are lovely, we have hardly any left, flowers that is, raindrops we normally have aplenty, but happily, yesterday was a dry day.
I liked the shots taken through the rain-soaked windscreen.
I read the comment asking about your cameras; My iPhone takes excellent photographs, rivalling my Sony DSLR, especially for convenience, but like you, in many situations the long lens attachment is needed which obviously I don’t have for my iPhone.
I didn’t think phone 🙂 A good recommendation – but I don’t know how to use mine 🙂 Many thanks, Sue. I’m pleased you liked the risky window shots as well as Jackie’s concentration.
“… a duo of decidedly damp donkeys.” – Love it! (and them) 🙂
Always good to see a happy gardener at work, even if the weather leaves something to be desired.
Having said that we could really do with some DECENT rain here – with the potential for very little rain in any of the coming six or seven months, and currently being around 25% under our average rainfall for the first 10 months of the calendar year to date i’m starting (?hah!) to appreciate how lucky some people are to have water falling free from the sky.
The last 4 months of moderate temperatures has meant my flowers and garden have once again provided an abundance of flowers and greenery, but these changing times give cause for genuine concern for their continuance in the immediate future.
Hope you 3 (inc Nugget) are not too damp. 🙂
Thanks very much, Bob. The wind is up again, but it is very warm. Still raining. Nugget is about
🙂
The rain only comes by to drop jewels on your garden. And it appears, to cool down the donkeys!! 🙂
Thanks very much, GP. Enjoyable comments
I agree with simplywendi, that this is a storybook, a picture book, that I look forward to again and again.
When i am left in the car I also create things–either photos or writing in one of my many notebooks.
Thank you so much, Pleasant
Raindrops are always beautiful. The donkeys look so sweet. I don’t know why but in my place, coastal Karnataka, we do not see donkeys at all. But they are there in the interior parts.
Thanks very much, Lakshmi. That is interesting
It was certainly a wet one yesterday! It’s been much nicer here today. It’s positively warm and dry!
Here too, after mid-afternoon. Thanks very much, Sandra
It’s been rainy here too. Personally I like the rain but not too much of it.
Beautiful flowers
We have actually needed it. Thanks very much, More
Raindrops on a spider’s web is divine!
Yes!
Many thanks, Rosaliene
I love that first photo of Jackie! Her gleeful smile is a delight, and I see that she also is a two-pairs-of-glasses gal. (I got quite a kick out that as I sit with my computer glasses on my face and my distance glasses on my head.)
You clearly are a like mind, Liz. Sunglasses as well makes it three at times. Thanks very much
Raindrops on fennel head and raindrops on cobwebs. Wow!
Thanks very much, Paol. A Wow from you is good
Beautiful garden photos, especially the one of Jackie and her lovely smile. ?
Thank you vey much, Sylvia
Lovely shots of the wet garden, Derrick.
Thanks very much, Julie. I thought of you, of course 🙂
So beautiful pictures Derrick! That raindrops on the flowers and on the spiderweb are wonderful!
Thank you very much, Ribana
The raindrops on the flowers are absolutely lovely, but those poor animals look waterlogged.
They just take it. Thanks very much, Laurie
You’ve caught the mood of the past few days, Derrick, damp donkeys and all.
Thanks very much, Roland
Love the wet wet wet photos! Beautiful! You’ve captured how important the rain is to every living creation. 🙂
And better than dry dry dry! 🙂
Tell Jackie her beautiful smile made my day and made me smile!
HUGS!!! 🙂
Will do, Carolyn. Many thanks
Our rhodo’s do that too … eternal optimists, maybe? 😀
Perhaps so. Actually that particular one blooms early and for several months. Thanks very much, Widders
Love the beautiful brilliant close ups of the flowers with raindrops, great photography
Felt a bit sorry for the wet forlorn donkey though.
Cheers.
And cheers to you, Ian
The spider web bejeweled with rain drops looks spectacular!
Thank you very much, Dolly
You are welcome, Derrick