A Break in the Weather.

[curiouswombat]

I am off work today - using up some annual leave days before the end of March. And it has been a beautiful day. I had to pop into town, and took a couple of pictures simply to contrast with all the recent ones.



It is difficult to believe that these two pictures are of the same sea we have seen so far this year...

Looking back towards Onchan.



The Tower of Refuge.



That is so perfect that it almost looks unreal, but it is entirely as I took it.

But looking down from the promenade along the sea-wall I could see this -



As the tide was quite low the storm-water holding tanks, built underneath the promenade walkway, were being emptied ready for the next deluge.

And a couple of other pics, just because I like them. I called at a friend's house on my way home and thought you might like her 'still-life with sheep' on the bench outside her door -



And I stopped to look at the dried rhododendron flowers in her garden. How amazing is it that, despite gusts of 70 - 80 mph winds on and off since well before Christmas, these delicate blossom skeletons are all still on the bush?





Totally unrelated, I have been doing a spot of tidying up over the past couple of weeks, and pointed out to D-d that, sitting upstairs, there was a ball of very thick, plush, wool and a pair of enormous needles, with a pattern, that had been a gift to her from my sister a couple of years ago.

The reply was "Yeah... but they're to knit another scarf! I don't need another scarf - I've got at least five already."

"Can I have them, then?" I asked.

"Please! Do what you want with them," she said.

I had no need for a scarf either - but there was just enough wool to make a very cuddly cushion cover...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The sea shots are very nice, what a neat way to handle your extra water, any way you can send it to northern California, we can use it there!

Oh, neat cushion cover, I do like the buttons, now all you need it a kitty to curl up on it!

Huggs,
Lynda

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The storm water tanks are very useful. If that water was going through the treatment plants it would overwhelm them, and if it was trying to go straight out into the sea during a stormy incoming tide, which it used to do in places around the island, then the sea would actually be able to come up through those pipes rather than the rainwater going down through them...

So there are similar tanks in two or three places around the island now.

I like the buttons, too, they added a bit of a 'designer' touch - and they weren't expensive, maybe $1 each.