Mon February 24th
This washed-out February continues to soak its way to its soggy end. Driving rain from 8am till 2pm, then intermittent (the sky was supposed to clear, but didn’t). 11mm. Our lane floods again. And another petty gale (Storm Nemo).
The colours of the landscape: the browns of compacted unsown or crop failed arable fields, whitened by standing water; the washed out green of permanent pasture which has somehow managed to grow throughout the winter, without ever looking remotely verdant; the gradual purpling of thorn hedges, and the ambering of distant willow tops; and, rendered almost invisible by nebulosity, the wood-ash grey of dying ash trunks.