350/365 Traffic

I was stuck in traffic in the dark and rain earlier, on my way to the flu-jab clinic. It had been a grey wet day all day, no photo-opps. Oh well, some days you win, some days you lose...

339/365 Standin' in the Rain

I caught this shot at IKEA, I'd driven there in the dark and rain, and the brightly lit lobby looked so welcoming! Retail therapy. Just the ticket! :0) One of my favourite ELO songs is "Standin' in the Rain (Concerto for a Rainy Day)" and lets face it, we get plenty of rain here in the UK! Listen to it here.

322/365 Raindrops

It was another wet autumnal day today.

320/365 Watery sun

Monday's weather was unsettled. It rained, the sun shone, the wind blew, there was a rainbow, but I didn't catch it.

244/365 Downpour

Shortly after we came back from Belper, the heavens opened. The storm was pretty much overhead for a while with bright lightning flashes and loud cracks of thunder - I switched the pc off and unplugged it from the wall! We had been shopping for new school shoes and saw omenous clouds west of Belper, so we didn't linger, and got home just in time.

218/365 Water

I captured this 'shower' right before it started to rain. The sun shone this morning and it seemed a fine warm day, so we filled the paddling pool; I set the hose going while I put washing out on the line to dry. Within half an hour it had begun to rain, just a little, so while Jodie played in the paddling pool I sat with an umbrella and camera nearby. As the rain started to get more insistant - I had hoped it was a passing shower, it seemed so pathetic - we decided to get the washing in and come indoors instead. The curse of the paddling pool... ? Uh-oh...

Also this morning, whilst the sun shone, the butterflies were all over the buddleia like a rash, and Sweetie hid in the winter flowering jasmine hoping to pounce on one.

200/365 Purple Rain

We had downpours today but at least it stayed dry for yesterday's Photo Walk and the Carribean Carnival. These are raindrops on the conservatory window and the original image was all but b/w, and lacking something for that. Almost made it blue, but I wasn't having a blue day. So, purple rain. I'm not a great fan of squiggle formally known as, but it was apt for today.

184/365 Hurry up, you two!

There was quite a lot of very welcome rain today after a hot spell and a whole bunch of snails partied on our deck.

Looking across to Mickleover from our loft room, converted to b&w, then messed about with!