1 We’ve put our lovely crop of shallots to dry in the sun prior to plaiting them for storage.
Shallots out to dry
2 Our Day Lilies are gorgeous.
Day Lily
Dark red Day Lily
3 It has been a day of sunshine and very heavy, if brief, showers. The fast-moving clouds reflect the restless day.
Clouds and an aeroplane trail
We have a beautiful Sailors’ Barometer and on November 24th last year, it was overflowing telling us that another storm was on the way! Sailors used weather glass barometers to forecast the weather. These simple, yet scientific, devices accurately predict the weather by barometric pressure. Basically, when the water level in the spout is high, it means low air pressure (rain, snow, storm, etc) is imminent. When the water level is low, the barometric pressure is high, and that indicates good weather.
This was, indeed, foreshadowing a cracker of a storm!
Sailors’ barometer overflowing 24th November 2012
In contrast, today’s ‘reading’.
Today, a bright sunny 3rd August
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