River Len at Caring

Thank you for all your good wishes for my clickity click birthday and all its travails yesterday. The walk was wonderful, the views expansive and the River Stour magical and I'm continuing the riparian theme today with a placid scene of the River Len on Caring Lane.

The Len is a tributary of the Medway running largely east to west to join the Medway in Maidstone. Its tributaries run north south so giving what is known as trellis drainage pattern determined by the variations in parallel rock stratigraphy that makes up the North and South Downs, the Weald, the Greensand Ridge and the Vales of Kent, Sussex and Holmesdale. I've always described the geology of south east England as like a tilted swiss roll that's has a horizontal slice cut from it exposing the different layers of rock which have eroded at different rates.

Enough of that, today was a little more relaxed, up later than usual although we were woken by a thunderstorm at 5.45am. We managed to get back to sleep til 8.00 which was quite late for us. The we kinda pottered, I went to the allotment to put up some netting around the blackcurrants and pick potatoes, spring onion, beetroot and courgettes.

Wearing polarising sunglasses we could see into the river and watched a big fish making its way lazily upstream. As I haven't such a filter on the camera at the moment all you get is the surface reflections. It is difficult to see where the water ends and the bankside vegetation begins.

I hope to be able to find a suitable blip for Silly Saturday to help mark the sad news of admirer'spassing