Up The Creek Without A Paddle

Today's shot was taken on another early morning walk after dropping my brother off at the station. It's the small area of woodland near our local recreation ground where I managed to get a previous blip of a fabulously graceful swan but sadly since the heatwave much of the water has disappeared and only this rather dejected looking creek is left. 
The title of today's blip refers to a saying which apparently first appears during Nelson's time (the late 18th Century) when wounded sailors were taken to be admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar, on the Gosport Peninsula in Hampshire, to die or recover. The ships moored up in the Solent and the wounded soldiers were transported up Haslar creek by tramline as it was notoriously narrow - hence "up the creek without a paddle".
It also refers to how I feel about today's shot - not one of my best but I didn't see anything else remotely blippable so the slang meaning comes into effect - "a challenging or troublesome situation, especially one that cannot be easily resolved"! :-)