Black over Bill's Mothers

Flaming June eh? The rain today has been almost biblical.

This is a shot from the hills overlooking Stroud on my way from Bath to Cheltenham for an evening of catching up with IT admin in the office. A few minutes after I took this, it rained so hard my wipers on full speed couldn't cope and I had to stop the car.

Roll on July and Summer

[John Sutton]

Nice capture Phil 🙂

[Lou Ann]

We've had a run of biblical downpours here as well. But no complaints, we so need the rain. This landscape is so lush and green. It looks great.

[Gayle]

Fabulous capture! :-)

[Henri Russell]

Beautiful clouds and capture of the rainfall and sunlight.

[Carole Sandford]

Great capture, amazing clouds!

[Karly]

Gorgeous - love the contrasting colors an that incredible dramatic sky! Fav.

[Milanie]

wonderful capture of those clouds and the rain.

[Babs]

looks like lots of rain in those clouds off in the distance. We had rain like that a few days ago. It is scary driving in such a downpour isn't it.

[Lynda McG]

Very dramatic - sums up the past couple of days' weather!

[Valerie Chesney]

Wonderful capture, fantastic cloud capture.

[Margo]

lovely country scene

[Paul]

Black over Bill's Mothers! I've heard this saying before, quite a lot of times actually from a facebook friend. But what does it mean. Who is this Bill? Cracking capture mate. Is that rain in the distance? Love the band of light over that way :)

[Phil Sandford]

@paul10 I'd never heard of it 'til I met and married Carole. Think it is sn E Midland saying. As for Bill and his Mum? Not a clue 😜😜

[Cherrill]

Wonderful! How English is this? We had just the same here in Suffolk where they say 'Will's mother's' Never heard it until I came here from London. The person who said it was an elderly lady and I genuinely said ' Oh who is Will's mother?!' Hahaha! fav

[Phil Sandford]

@johnsutton @louannwarren @gaylewood @henrir @carole_sandford @365karly1 @milaniet @onewing @lyndamcg @happysnaps @777margo @paul10 @Cherrill thank you all once again for your views comments and favs. "Black over bills mothers", is a saying that I learned from Carole, I've certainly never heard of it before I met her, but it's quite apt for weather like this