Last weekend (26th & 27th September) was rain and winds and more rain and yet stronger winds. By Monday (28th September) the wind had blown itself out taking the rain clouds with it. Time for a walk. Marriotts Way, out of Norwich, ought to be dry-ish underfoot. I made an early start…
St Lawrence’s Steps, Norwich: 📷 28/09/2020
📷 28/09/2020
The Wensum usually runs clear and clean. Not this day.
River Wensum. Red. 📷 28/09/2020
And I thought this was the worst of the damage…
Riverside walk through the trees: 📷 28/09/2020
Autumn colour: 📷 28/09/2020
I was hoping for autumn colour. This was it…
Autumn colour: 📷 28/09/2020
… until I took a slight detour and found this…
Old Man Willow: 📷 28/09/2020
… and this…
Windblown Willow: 📷 28/09/2020
Morning exercise: to climb over this willow… oh, and another… that was blocking my path
Wind-wrecked Willow: 📷 28/09/2020
These willows usually stand 3′ from the river…
River Wensum in flood: 📷 28/09/2020
The tiny Tud had burst its banks. The Tud feeds into the Wensum, the Wensum feeds into the Yare and the Yare flows dangerously close to my door.
Floodwaters, not a pond: 📷 28/09/2020
By mid-morning, a misty-rain was veiling the land.
Costessey… 📷 28/09/2020
I didn’t mind the mizzle; look what it did to this
Web, hips and rips: 📷 28/09/2020
And here I found colour…
Autumnal oak: 📷 28/09/2020
I found fungi too, and I took a second, shorter walk before going home. But those photos must wait for the Tuesday Treat.
Hope you’ve enjoyed this brief view of a rain-sogged Marriotts Way
crispina kemp 
A nice nature walk.
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The sort we used to get at school… I always loved those
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How nice.
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Wonderful pictures 👍🤝
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Thank you 🙂
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Very much enjoyed. Am preparing my own self to get out there, though our high today will only be 9C
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As was our yesterday… I beach-walked. Beach wasn’t so bad but it was freezing when I had to walk the clifftop. But I wasn’t risking that water again. July it was warm (warmer).
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Still haven’t budged and am working on my CCC post that I felt was meh so I didn’t post. Trying to give it some oomph 😉
Not quite the season for walking in the water. Mind you, water takes longer to cool but still.
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Not paddling in North Sea this time of year
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Yea. Always a surprise or two. And if it’s a gift of nature, then it’s a treasure
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Willows are relatively rare here – I think almost all of them are cultivated – but they have a special feeling for me. Downed willows make me feel really bad, possibly because it reminds me of the willow my great-grandmother (never met her) planted. It got killed in a tornado.
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Looking at the roots on these wind-blowns, I’d say willows are shallow-rooting. It’s doubtful they’d stand up to regular winds. The only fallen trees I found after our storm were willows
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