It's been a muggy, humid, airless kind of a day - the cats were lounging about in the garden and the washing got dry (except for the red hoodie - no it's not mine) - but it wasn't nice weather at all. Then this afternoon, the big dark storm clouds started to gather around the Calmont slopes, the thunder started to rumble continuously for about five minutes and a huge storm blew down the valley. It absolutley chucked it down - you could see the rain coming down in sheets - then it started to hailstone.... Some of the hailstones were about half an inch across and were bouncing about all over the place. H reminded me of the time were in Andorra many years ago and there was a huge hailstorm. We picked up the hailstones and used them to cool our Gin & Tonics.
No such luck today.
Here's a photo of how dark it was - and the same view on a sunnier day....
The 'hill' behind the houses, is actually the other side of the river valley, but you can see how stormy it was.
Working away with my painting - did a lot of the ears and Wilbur's pretty little pink nose today. I realised that I'd drawn the nose too big, after I started to paint it, so I had to tweek it about a bit and make some changes....
The last fluffy bits on the ears, I'll add after the sky's finished.
Which reminds me to post the update on Frankie's ears - they're still improving, but he put up a mighty struggle when we tried to give him his medicine. He was so cross that he refused to drink his special coffee milk.....
Off to a House-Warming and African Drum Party this evening (in the same place).
Tschüss!
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