I had a few comments on my previous post about how it still looks rather green here - and as I replied to some, for one thing we've not had the same long-lasting extreme heat as further south in Europe (Britain included); and for another we've probably also had more rain (even if mostly rather unpredictable showers combined with thunder).
In our area/town there has also so far been no ban on using sprinklers for watering, which means that the places where I usually walk and snap photos - like the old cemetery nearby, and the park down in the city centre - have had extra help to remain predominantly green.
However, today I walked a different way down to the riverside, and snapped the photo below to show you one example of places nearby where it's more obvious that it's really "fundamentally" rather dry around here too:
This is the grassy hillside below the cemetery up on the hill; and on the other side of the street, a slope down to the railway running in a valley further down below looks much the same.
But then down by the river, it's quite easy to forget about the drought again for a while. (There are dams at the northern vs the southern end of town to adjust the water level through the city centre, and it has been kept normal so far.)
Water lilies are now in bloom in certain places in the river - here, yellow ones. (Alas as I only had my phone camera, I could not really zoom in the flowers properly.)
The first one looks like a hay field!
ReplyDeleteGinny, yes it does. The grass isn't cut there but just grows "wild".
DeleteThe dry looks like what my "lawn" looks like almost all year. The river is pretty.
ReplyDeleteRiver, one of the good changes that have happened in this town over the 40 years I've lived here is that the river has been made much more accessible. In the past it was lined with factories (mostly textile industry) and there were few places where people could get close to the water. While nowadays it's possible to walk along it most of the way through town.
ReplyDeleteYou have some beautiful scenery close to where you live
ReplyDeleteAddy - yes, I do, and I'm thankful for that, as nowadays I rarely travel very far afield... :)
DeleteIt's quite a shock when you see how dry the grass is. There is lots of green in the trees, though some are beginning to drop their leaves. What's the betting we have torrential downpours from September onwards, Monica?
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