Beautiful fall impressions. I miss the leaves changing, love to see those blazing reds and oranges against the green. The raindrops are making me a little jealous. Everything’s brown here, hopefully we’ll get some rain this season.
Stellatree, everything here has been dried out and crispy, then finally, rain. Enough to soak into the ground, at least. I was going to take the monster dogs out with me, but the thunder grumbling started in earnest, and Doll does not like thunder grumbling. Turned out to be a good thing I left them behind, because I had the privilege of running into a small group of wild turkeys over at the school, taking some time to shake all the water out. :D
stellatreesays
Ooh, turkeys, they’re such awesome dinosaurs! Lucky!
That’s what we had as well. All September was warm to hot without a drop of rain and now it finally rained for two days.
It’s a relief, too. The last few winters have been cold, but really light on snow. I’m no fan of snow, but we rely on a heavy amount of snow melt in spring to keep the water table up.
Well, we’re not really lacking water. It’s more like we get lots of water at one time (remember the horrible flash floods we had in early summer) and none at others…
Looks like we broke weather :(
Ice Swimmersays
John Dowland’s lute music goes well with autumn photos. (Now listening to Melancholy Galliard, P 25.)
Pictures from a ruskaretki (an excursion to see the autumn colours). The second-to-last photo is my fave, intense colours of the leaves.
springa73says
Those are beautiful photos. We’ve been short on rain since the spring here in Massachusetts. We got some rain over the last couple of days, but it still probably didn’t amount to much more than an inch, not much compared to the shortage. In some of the lakes I can see little islands and rocks that I’ve never seen before since the water level is so low. I normally don’t wish for a snowy winter but we’ll need one unless we get an awful lot of rain in the next month or so.
Gliell, it looks like we definitively broke the weather.
With no snow in the mountainns in the winter and rain comming in the summer only sparingly and only in big splashes that cannot sink in the ground and run mostly away, the whole of central Europe is parched and accumulates slowly underground water deficit for three years in a row now. And since many of biggest european rivers actually start in central Europe -- Germany and CZ -- so does the rest of Europe feel those deficits too.
Here it has been finaly slowly raining for a few days now, but when I take the showel to the ground, 20 cm deep it is still dry. We urgently need either a few weeks/months of mild rain, or a lot of snow that slowly melts in the spring. If we get another dry winter and only an occasional storm in the sommer, we are truly fucked.
I have already 5 cubic metres prepared for water storage during sommer for the garden. It might not be enough if current trends continue.
rqsays
It’s because we stole all the rain in August, then ran out for September. We had an early harvest because the crops were rotting in the field.
I love the single cherry. It’s so lonely!
Beautiful fall impressions. I miss the leaves changing, love to see those blazing reds and oranges against the green. The raindrops are making me a little jealous. Everything’s brown here, hopefully we’ll get some rain this season.
rq, thanks!
Stellatree, everything here has been dried out and crispy, then finally, rain. Enough to soak into the ground, at least. I was going to take the monster dogs out with me, but the thunder grumbling started in earnest, and Doll does not like thunder grumbling. Turned out to be a good thing I left them behind, because I had the privilege of running into a small group of wild turkeys over at the school, taking some time to shake all the water out. :D
Ooh, turkeys, they’re such awesome dinosaurs! Lucky!
Ahhh, I see autumn has arrived at your place, too.
That’s what we had as well. All September was warm to hot without a drop of rain and now it finally rained for two days.
Giliell:
It’s a relief, too. The last few winters have been cold, but really light on snow. I’m no fan of snow, but we rely on a heavy amount of snow melt in spring to keep the water table up.
Well, we’re not really lacking water. It’s more like we get lots of water at one time (remember the horrible flash floods we had in early summer) and none at others…
Looks like we broke weather :(
John Dowland’s lute music goes well with autumn photos. (Now listening to Melancholy Galliard, P 25.)
Pictures from a ruskaretki (an excursion to see the autumn colours). The second-to-last photo is my fave, intense colours of the leaves.
Those are beautiful photos. We’ve been short on rain since the spring here in Massachusetts. We got some rain over the last couple of days, but it still probably didn’t amount to much more than an inch, not much compared to the shortage. In some of the lakes I can see little islands and rocks that I’ve never seen before since the water level is so low. I normally don’t wish for a snowy winter but we’ll need one unless we get an awful lot of rain in the next month or so.
Gliell, it looks like we definitively broke the weather.
With no snow in the mountainns in the winter and rain comming in the summer only sparingly and only in big splashes that cannot sink in the ground and run mostly away, the whole of central Europe is parched and accumulates slowly underground water deficit for three years in a row now. And since many of biggest european rivers actually start in central Europe -- Germany and CZ -- so does the rest of Europe feel those deficits too.
Here it has been finaly slowly raining for a few days now, but when I take the showel to the ground, 20 cm deep it is still dry. We urgently need either a few weeks/months of mild rain, or a lot of snow that slowly melts in the spring. If we get another dry winter and only an occasional storm in the sommer, we are truly fucked.
I have already 5 cubic metres prepared for water storage during sommer for the garden. It might not be enough if current trends continue.
It’s because we stole all the rain in August, then ran out for September. We had an early harvest because the crops were rotting in the field.