Today was the first time in 5 months I could get away for a couple of hours from my caring duties to visit the canal at Marsworth. The weather was perfect for the picture postcard photos with thunderstorms brewing interspersed with spells of sunshine. I had my small Canon Power Shot A700 camera in my pocket which I find invaluable for taking snaps.
Walking back from the car park along the canal towpath towards the Bluebell Tea Rooms I saw a narrowboat in lock 39 with a gentleman sitting on the other side of the canal drawing which I thought would make a nice photo. Here it is...
The narrowboat is owned by the Hillingdon Narrowboats Association ( HNA )
Which is an excellent organisation providing boating experiences for the community details of which can be found here..
After all the rain we have been having I thought I would have a look at the reservoir to see if it had filled up after the drought..
Safe to say it is now replenished and plenty more to come looking at that sky.
By now time was getting on and those storm clouds were getting nearer by the second but I had to get at least one more picture of a narrowboat so here is NB Widgeon about to get dumped on by a downpour.
By the time the storm arrived I was back in the car and on the way home through rivers of water running down the roads.
Hopefully that is the first of my hours out from caring a week, next week I think it will be the dog walking depending on the weather of course.
I've driven along that road below the reservoir bank many times, but never been up to have a look. Every year I go to the Marsworth Steam Rally, but like many others, this year it was cancelled because of wet ground.
ReplyDeleteThere are usually quite a few small hand-turned organs there, although I have not played there myself.