#ScenicSaturday 24th February 2024:

On By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, opinion, Photography

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.

Today’s photo depicts a stretch of the beautiful River Wye, which forms a boundary along part of its length between England and Wales. Taken from the English side, it shows a local brook as it flows into the wider river. The place is occasionally subject to flooding when heavy rain has fallen in the distant Brecon Beacons, mountains in Wales, past which the river flows on its way south.

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14 thoughts on “#ScenicSaturday 24th February 2024:”

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    1. Thank you, Lynette. It was taken in February, which in the UK is still considered winter. But the seasons are no longer as they were, so the whole concept of seasons is becoming increasingly elastic!

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      1. Yes, they definitely are that. We’re showing signs of spring here and I’m hoping it slows down since that will aide in dealing with the forest fires to the north that have been smouldering since last December. We are in recovery from the drought here in the valley, but some northern areas didn’t get much snow or other precipitation. An early spring could be catastrophic so far as fires are concerned.

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        1. Here, our February has been wetter and milder than usual. January was also wetter and milder. At least that means our forest is unlikely to suffer wildfires. But when the summer comes and is as hot as it was last year, who knows what may happen?
          I hope you manage to keep clear of the wildfires where you are, Lynette. They do so much damage, kill so much wildlife.

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          1. Thanks, Stuart. It was extremely hot here at times last summer; temperatures in the 40sC. It’s not unusual to have days that hot, but a long string of hot days is. Along with a later spring, I hope we’re able to avoid that. You’re right – no one knows what may happen.

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    1. Aye, Noelle, the smaller beck flows through the village and into the larger River Wye. Most of the time, that flow is low key and the water in that channel would be a slender rippling flow, with no chance of a reflection. But on the day I took this shot, the river and the small stream were both swollen after much rain, so the smoother surface gave me the chance to capture that reflection under a blue sky that was almost Mediterranean in colour!

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        1. The River Wye rises in west Wales, Noelle, and flows through the Welsh valleys and past the mountain range known as the Brecon Beacons until it becomes the border between England and Wales before it joins the River Severn at Chepstow, where the waters finally merge with the Bristol Channel to flow into the Atlantic.

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            1. Once the weather is warmer, Noelle, the river will be used by many canoeists. In fact, just a few miles from where I live is a place you can hire a canoe and then leave it as far as Chepstow to be picked up. Other people go sailboarding, and a few brave (and possibly foolish) souls swim in it. But, as it’s actually rather polluted due to excess run-off from chicken farms, I’d not put a toe in there!”

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