So the problem with taking a camera on holiday is that there are hundreds of pictures to go through when you come home. 

And if they're my pictures, the chances are that they consist of 10 pictures of the same thing all at different exposures. 

it becomes a daunting prospect to actually sit down & make the time to delete the chaff & tickle the good ones. Especially when the allotment is fluttering it's overgrown eyelashes.

Anyway, lots of pics were taken, even though it was, even by Cumbrian standards, a rainy holiday. 

The rain just gave me the excuse to take lots of pics of waterfalls - The Force was the heaviest I'd seen.

L. & I went up one day & it was no more than than 4 foot across, but after a rainy night, it became the proverbial torrent. 

Incidentally, rain on a caravan roof is so much more cosy because you know that even if it keeps you awake ..... there's no work to get up early for. Even now, the thought of it makes me feel like I'm pulling the duvet up to snuggle in.

So, a few snapshots of our hols..... (mostly waterfalls if I'm honest)

High Force at Aira Force.... We've never walked past the first falls, which is pretty but has a lot of people crowding around it. Oddly, it also looks like a big wishing well due to the amount of coins chucked in. Some people do odd things. But the top force was much quieter, and hotter by the time we got there.

No cup of tea could taste better than that brewed on a camping stove & drunk out of a plastic cup. I'd say I felt like a millionaire, but millionaire's don't appreciate the simple pleasures.

a view down ullswater.... this canoe belonged to a couple of teenage lovebirds. He got in the canoe, she sat on his knee, & then they couldn't get in the water. I pushed them off & as soon as they started out, she realised how low they were sitting in the water & wanted to come back in.

this one's for Lulu; Iona's feet in the water off the spit at Ullswater

lots of birds at the feeder outside the caravan, especially pleasing was the nuthatch, I always thought they were quite small, but perhaps they were just far away, because they are bigger than most of the other little birds & bullied their way to their breakfast.

2 views of the high water at Skelwith Bridge. This was early morning, so early in fact, I was able to park in the cafe car park - now there's a rarity. I think I prefer the portrait version to the panorama, but the colours are pretty in both versions.

speaking of panoramas, I took a wide one at the top of Loughrigg, it's nice, but it's an amalgam of 6 different pics. If I uploaded it to here, I think the site may collapse. I'll have to see if I can find a piece of paper long enough to print it on. loo roll perhaps.

This is an odd one of the langdales, it's a hdr so some of the movement between exposures has made the middle ground a bit fuzzy, but I like the feel of it. It almost looks like a watercolour.

more water; this is at that place that you can't say the name of in case it makes it rain. 3 of us got to the bridge at the top this time, which is a rare occurrence.

no matter how wet it is at the top though, it never seems to be full at the bottom......

more pictures of waterfalls will undoubtedly follow.....