30 Days Wild : 21

Day 21 of 30 Days Wild and it is mid-summer’s day.

I don’t quite live in the land of the midnight sun but it is sufficiently far North here to be able to enjoy a degree of light throughout the night at this time of year. I have lived here for nine years and every year have promised myself an overnight photo outing at the Solstice, to capture the sun going down and then rising again. I know just the spot. However, every year without fail, no matter how great the weather in the run up to the Solstice, the actual event is shrouded in cloud or mist or actual rain.

This year is no exception to the pattern except for the fact that we have had generally rotten weather for weeks on end and still await Spring, let alone Summer. We had two good days this month so far.

So, what do you do when the sun fails to appear for worshipping at the Solstice? Why, you simply have to celebrate the rain instead!

Little drops of water,
little grains of sand,
make the mighty ocean
and the beauteous land.

Little Over The Water, disappearing into the mist (note that the iris are now blooming in significant numbers over there – me, I have two!)

It is sort of mizzling, with very poor visibility. It feels still but is actually windy enough to make taking sharp photographs quite challenging. I took the camera out to see if I could take some enchanting photographs of droplets on grasses, the sun being entirely absent today.

Iris #3 about to bloom. Do you think that the buds resemble lobster claws? I do

Droplets on Silverweed

Raindrops on grass – enchanting enough?
The daisies remained furled today, not keen on rain at all
We now have eight Marsh Orchid plants and they don’t appear to mind the rain at all
Raindrops on Rosa rugosa
Raindrops on grass, in mono
Raindrops on grass
Raindrops on feather
Raindrops on grass
Raindrops on horsetails
Selfies in raindrops