A Cotswold landscape with added colours.

After a fun evening in Bristol, we decided to come home earlier than expected as Woodpeckers' cold had worsened considerably. It was just as when we'd got home she went straight to bed and after drinking her tea and eating some food she has been sleeping deeply.

But on the drive home, which took us northwards up the A46, usually called the Bath road, the bright light started to ominously darken ahead of us. and we saw a large thick black cloud moving inland from the Bristol Channel. Helena suggested stopping to take a few pictures of the rolling landscape, and so I pulled off onto a small single track road where we found another similar road joining it. I climbed a small bank and took some pictures of sheep in a field brightly lit by the sunshine, whilst beyond the horizon the black cloud hung ominously.

I had noticed a faint patch of coloured light set against the black cloud which indicated the faintest of rainbows. I turned away for a minute and then on looking back the progression of the clouds had brought rainfall in the distance and immediately a vivid rainbow formed, eventually producing an arc so that both ends could be seen on the land.

I love rainbows and despite them being rather hackneyed images I wanted to blip one today. But instead I am using the first shot I took, where the bright sunlight on the field of grass contrasted with the intense darkness of the rain clouds behind. I have decided to add a couple of rainbow images to this Flickr gallery, which will remind me of the journey home, and the torrential rain that followed.