A day inbetween the Monsoon !!!

It's been all over the Television and on the radio about the awful weather we have been having here in the UK . One months rain fell in 48 hours !!! This ment that i have been stuck inside and unable to get out with my camera .

Yesterday however the sun came out and the temperature went up a few degrees . So i went out for an hour or 2 around my local area to take a few photos . There are several allotments within 10 mins of my house . And on one of them someone grows a huge amount of Tulips !!  I never see anything else growing on there . So i imagine that they just love Tulips . I took a few images of the wonderful splash of colours .

I then went for a short drive to see what the Rape seed fields are looking like . They do look wonderful . But i always find they give off rather a strange smell !!

One of the roads i went down had a road closed sign , due to flooding . But as i drive an old Land Rover , i went for a nosey to see how deep it was . It was around 2' deep , which is easily passable in a Land Rover . So i went through , just to give the old girl as wash of her undercarriage !!!
Talking to a friend of mine, who is the local policeman , he wasn't too happy that i had ignored his signs that he had put up earlier that morning !! Still , i do believe that i have never grown out of childhood , as most men will agree , that we never grow up , just our toys get bigger :-)

Later that afternoon i went to walk Mabel in the local park and see if it was possible to do any of our normal walk along the river . I would have been ok if i had taken a 2 man canoe and a couple of life jackets !!! The water level was well above my wellies . So it looked like Mabel was going to have a very short walk . The our friend Jackie appeared with her Lurcher called Izzy . So Mabel and Izzy had an hour running round after each other , through the flood water , knocking hell out of each other and knocking each other into the flooded field .


So below are a few of the photos i took . I was hoping to go out again today and venture further afield . But the rain has returned and the water levels have risen even higher !! The flooded road that i went through yesterday was deeper . I was unable to get through as someone had attempted it in a almost brand new Honda CRV . They didn't make it half way !!! So their vehicle is now stranded in the middle of the lane , going nowhere !!! I did get out to see if anyone was still in the vehicle . To offer a tow out onto higher ground . But they had abandoned the vehicle and must have got very wet and soggy feet !!!

 The wonderful splash of colours from the Tulips .

 The same Tulips with a small greenhouse . I desaturated the colours on this.

 Rape seed field .

 Love the cloud formation on this one .

Again , the clouds are wonderful in this image . I always look for clouds when taking a landscape . As plain blue skies are just boring .

Hope you enjoyed this short blog . It's difficult to get decent photos when it is raining 24hrs a day for a few days running !!!

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Thanks , Mark .