please empty your brain below
lovely!! [did you venture out farther than your square to grab these shots?]

dg writes: evidently not.

Arly | 02.06.20 - 2:51 a.m. | #

One year I took a picture of my garden from the same place each day. It’s fantastic to see how it gradually changes through the seasons.

Brian | 02.06.20 - 7:22 a.m. | #

Blimey! Looking in this direction one could be in the middle of rural England. The Streetview image downstream from the same spot is rather different though...

Richard | 02.06.20 - 7:29 a.m. | #

I was looking at Streetview too, only realising today you can go back to previous Streetviews. Many seem similar, but what strikes me is how wintery the trees still looked in the April 2018 image. Presumably the effects of the "Beast from the East."

Tim | 02.06.20 - 7:46 a.m. | #

It's been interesting to watch the old Wandle waterway from Carshalton Park over the spring. Coming from a wet winter, the old spring and canal were full to the brim, flowing to meet the 365 days a year Wandle down in Grove Park. This is not a regular sight, confined to particularly wet winters. Most longtime locals can count the number of times the river has flowed from the old source on one hand.

Then followed two months of basically no precipitation at all. We got to watch the waterfall in Grove Park slow to a trickle, and then stop completely. The canal bed dried up within a week. Now it's a dry dip in the ground with a surprising number of reeds growing in it. The river is back to normal, and it may be years before the water flows this way again. Or not, global weather depending.

Chz | 02.06.20 - 8:38 a.m. | #

Over the past few weeks I have been cycling a little further on from the location of your photographs, I have followed the path to the eastern edge of Hackney marshes and North marsh and have discovered that at the far end of the marshes this stretch of river which is quite shallow is used for outdoor bathing, on each visit I estimate that there were in excess of 200 people actually in the river and numerous others all along the banks, there was music some dancing lots of alcohol and various picnics taking place. Social distancing was virtually non existent and a great deal of close interaction was taking place in the river and on the banks. Thankfully it was still possible to social distance whilst using the pathway.

fishislandskin | 02.06.20 - 9:15 a.m. | #

I'm heading off down to the local river today. Unfortunately it's for a communal litter pick after Keld and Kisdon Force were swamped with Covidiots wild camping this weekend. They were mainly younger and male but, proving that age is no barrier to stupidity, there was also a 74 year old camping there who had decided this was a great time to do the Pennine Way.

Putters | 02.06.20 - 9:16 a.m. | #

Gorgeous. My nearest (and favourite) stretch of water is just a bit too far away to walk to which has been the worse part of the lockdown for me, especially given the glorious weather.

I love the clarity of the water in the last couple of pictures, and the deepening blue of the sky.
Nature is amazing when we give it a chance to do its thing unhindered.

Cornish Cockney | 02.06.20 - 1:15 p.m. | #

You would never guess that is in London.

Sprout Eater | 02.06.20 - 10:18 p.m. | #

It is good to watch how the landscape changes throughout the year. No two years are rarely the same and occasionally nature surprises us – chz’s Carshalton comment is an example of this.

I missed the spring reappearance at Carshalton, as I don't think I've been there this year. I'd have made a special trip if I'd known.

I saw it when it last appeared in 2014 and it was quite spectacular seeing everything in full flow, from the grotto source in Carshalton Park all the way to Grove Park and the flooding of the route in the park from the base of the waterfall to its junction with the Wandle. Also, to actually see a large amount of water in the Hog Pit and a fast flow in the normally dry stream adjacent to Festival walk.

Maps for the area show how things have changed: [1898] [1957]

In 1957, the waterfall seemingly leads nowhere, although I assume that there must still have been a regular supply of water to the Mill Pond and then on to the Wandle. Today, the waterfall is the exit from the blocked off Mill Pond.

rogmi | 04.06.20 - 1:44 p.m. | #











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