The Rain Cycle

I didn't need to go far for today's blip. The original image of the garden mirror, with the reflection of the magnolias, was taken this morning. The waterfall on Dartmoor was taken last week and the sky, which looks exactly like the sky from the window today, was taken over Plymouth Sound. The loose theme connecting the images is the cycle of life. Warm air from the Atlantic Ocean forms dense clouds. When they reach land rain falls over the moors and cascades back down the streams and rivers to return to the sea. Gardens grow and bloom from the falling rain and water from the rivers. Although we talk about the weather a lot in this country (and often moan about it) we are fortunate that we are not afflicted by the dust storms that they have had in China, the droughts in Africa and the hugely destructive forest fires that there have been in Australia and California.