Rocking Your World 2021: Week 48

Well there is not much to write about except the weather and glorious skies, but it is Friday again so here goes.

One thing is for sure, last weekend was wet, wet, wet. Fortunately it stopped just short of causing serious flooding, though some cars were washed away etc. My son laughs at me when I talk about the rain but he (and you my friends in UK) are used to it. For us it is novelty, and one that soon wears thin!

It rained all day Saturday and got heavier all night. Once again we could here the water spouts pouring from each corner of the roof. It continued on Sunday so after lunch we had a little local drive round to see if everyone had the same as us. The weather here is often very localised. 

As we drove the back road to Turre and approached the bridge over what is usually a dry rambla, we could see there was a river flowing along it.

We have only seen this with any significant water in it, a couple of times before, so there had obviously been some pretty heavy rain up in the mountains that was flowing down it to the sea.

We left Turre on the main road which passes over the rambla much further along, and here it was a wide, and muddy river. 

Some fields along the road were under water. Not much of this stretch is cultivated so there was no real damage done, and I am sure the trees loved it. (Sorry the photos are not very crisp. They were all taken from a moving car).

On the way back home we drove over the rambla that goes around our village, normally a gravel path that folks like to walk their dogs along, and it is also car access to some of the isolated homes up on the campo. But on Sunday that too had water flowing along it. We have only been aware of this once before since we came here, and that was in the devastating storms and floods of 2012.

Despite two days of steady rain, there was a small attempt at a sunset on Sunday night, peeping out from under the storm clouds.

Since then we have had some showers and a fair bit of sunshine at least for part of the day, but there is a wind coming down from the north that can be very cold. We have managed to sit out in the porch around midday several days as it is fairly sheltered from the wind, but the sun is lower now and soon the corner of the roof puts the porch in shade, and it is time to move inside. 

We have been glad of our new fire, which has been lit each evening.

Now, one week on, the results of the rain can be seen in the new vegetation everywhere. You have probably seen in many of my sky photos, there is a 'lacy' tree that I like to catch as a silhouette. Sadly it won't been there any more, as the rain has beaten it down. It was growing into the side of the slope down into the green zone, behind my neighbours garden, and its roots were not deep enough to hold it there, so it is now lying at right angles to the slope, and I suspect one more heavy rainfall will bring it right down. But look at how green the green zone is right now.

At least the bright sky and wind dried a line of washing for me on Tuesday. I was grateful for that as I usually wash at the weekend and that couldn't happen this week. I have to try and dry everything outside, as I have nowhere suitable to hang it indoors, and no longer have a tumble drier. So I was grateful for that.

I had a long chat with Ben one evening. He has been a bit rough with some virus, but fortunately it wasn't Covid. He has worked for the railway around 16 years now, and this is the first time he has taken a week off sick, so he was annoyed to have broken that record. He was fed up being at home on his own so we had a good long chat to pass the evening for him.

I have managed to do a bit of crafting. I made a few more Christmas cards. I have actually written all the ones for UK and posted them in a parcel to my sister who will post them on for me next month. But I need a few more for friends over here, so I made some, and then prepared the first one of some decorations I want to get made. I am just waiting for some special adhesives to come from Amazon, tomorrow hopefully, so I can assemble it.

The off and on weather had given a few spectacular skies in the evenings, and I can't help but see faces in them. Here are two examples.

No face this time, (well maybe; maybe not), but I just love the way this one turned out.

Last night there was bright streak of light along a cloud as I went out to feed the dogs.

I just knew it was going to turn from gold to red soon, but the clouds were gathering and it was quite an ominous sky. The light was fading but a pink started showing at each wave of cloud.  Suddenly I saw this 'cat trying to catch a fish'. I took several shots using slightly different effects and settings on the camera and here are the best ones. My husband Chris gave a reluctant grunt of agreement when I asked him if he could see the image, so I wonder whether you can too.

And with that I will go over to link up with Annie's Friday Smiles.