Enough steady rain fell throughout the morning for Jackie to join a line of drivers playing water sports spraying each other as they drove through pools speeding out from the verges along Christchurch Road as she drove me to Birchfield dental practice for a hygienist session with Bronya.
By mid afternoon bright sunshine shone on our forest drive.
The Wootton Road post box now carries a crocheted Remembrance Day tribute. This actually stands in Tiptoe. Further along the thoroughfare enters woodland and becomes
Tiptoe Road, which, today was awash. Naturally I stepped out and photographed cars splashing through the pool streaming across the moorland and down into the opposite field. Naturally Jackie photographed me in action and a van from her driving seat.
She also pictured mushrooms and autumn leaves on the ground and leaves on their branches against the clear blue sky.
A young pedestrian was forced to cross the bridge by the Forest Road ford where the water doesn’t usually rise so high.
At first along Bisterne Close, our paths kept crossing with a dog walker at impressively far apart locations.
Despite the continuing comparatively mild weather the woodland alongside the Close looks definitely autumnal.
Jackie produced images of fall’s red-gold ferns and squirrels perhaps stocking up their larders.
Finally the Assistant Photographer caught the sun slip sliding away sunset and me failing to do so.
This evening we all dined on Jackie’s stupendous chicken and vegetable stewp and cheesy pizza with which she drank Hoegaarden and I drank Hacienda Uvanis Garnacha Old Vines 2022.