Wet! Wet! Wet!

I travelled down to Suffolk today to visit my mother as I haven't seen her for a while. She was feeling the heat a bit and so, after our usual lunch at the garden centre (very good food actually) I bought her a desk top fan to keep her cool.

The weather had been hot and humid all day, so I wasn't surprised to watch a storm brewing as I was driving home. The sky was looking particularly ominous at one point and I dived into a lay-by to try and get a shot of storm clouds over a field of poppies. Didn't work though, as best (or worst) clouds not in the right place ..... and then the rain started.

It became really heavy - 'cloudburst' level - and quite a few cars were pulling over rather than battle through the difficult conditions. I was finding it all very interesting and so, camera still in hand, started playing around with shots through the windscreen which was more like a river! The effect of car headlights through the water was fascinating and lead to an abstract quality. This blip is one of them.

Sort of goes with one of the 'Shakespeare' sayings for this week's Challenge - although looks like it's another not actually penned by Shakespeare and possibly a quote from a Turkish poem called “I Am Afraid (Korkuyorum)” by Qyazzirah Syeikh Ariffin attributed, even in the original, to William Shakespeare; I do agree that it is not terribly Shakesperean although interesting.