More rain please!!

This week I was on top of Allt yr Esgair, a hill near to where I live. I was looking down at the Usk valley and the state of the land below was startling. Everything was baked dry, it looked like something from another much hotter country and nothing like the Brecon Beacons should resemble. I took a photograph and when I got back home I compared it to a shot I took near to this time last year. The perspective of the 2018 shot is wider because it was taken with a full frame camera but the difference in conditions can be clearly seen. We really do need some sustained rain and quite soon to get the land ‘moving’ again. Also the river Usk is very low and contaminated in places with a horrible green slime, this slime denudes the river of Oxygen and makes things difficult for many small life forms. The river could do with a good scouring out to remove this problem and I hope the thunderstorms forecast for the weekend will do just that!

Here is a Collage of the two images.
I don’t have to say which image is 2018!