It's rapidly reaching that stage of the summer where all the greens start to look uniform and a bit dull. Thankfully, where the sunlight breaks through, that wonderful, bright, fresh, chartreuse green can still sparkle. This is the path through the lower valley in Northcliffe Park. It could be anywhere... it feels very far from its actual, fairly urban, setting.
After the past two days of unusually hot (for here) weather, I thought this was a cooling image. Here in Yorkshire we have had temperatures in the high 30Cs (up towards 100F) for the last two days, which is unheard of. Near to where my sister lives in Lincolnshire, it broke all UK records yesterday at 40.3C! That's 104.5F. Thankfully, being retired means I can just flop about and drink water! My old stone house with its fairly thick walls also stays relatively cool, as long as I close the curtains and keep windows and doors shut. It's something we are probably going to have to get more used to. The focus in the UK has always been how to cope with winter, not summer, and we are slow to adapt to the environmental changes we have collectively brought about.
Hopefully, 'normal service' will be resumed here in a day or two, though we desperately need some rain to replenish our rivers and reservoirs. Some of the rivers and falls in the Yorkshire Dales have dried up completely. I sympathise with all those who have to endure similar hot temperatures more regularly and for longer.
What a gorgeous photo! Hoping the weather relents soon.
ReplyDeleteYes, a very cooling place to invite one to saunter down the path.
ReplyDeleteThat treed area looks rather cool but I assume that it wouldn't have been yesterday.
ReplyDeleteWe get hot humid weather, and we're in a spell right now. I'm taking water bottles with me at all times.
ReplyDeleteYou may have concerned those greens a bit dull, Jenny, but to many of us they looked like a great place for shade in this heat wave, here too. Glad to read that your stone home stays cool.
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