In the UK, October has arrived in torrential rain that has battered the garden but filled the ponds – so how can I complain, especially when compared to the current catastrophic damage and loss of life in Florida’s Big Bend region from Hurricane Helene.
I found that I begin …expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good…. If we will take the good we find,… we shall have heaping measures….Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been watching the progress of the hurricane. There is often a worse situation somewhere.
indeed – I try to broaden my horizons in this way too
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Nicely composed. The upper left shadow simplifies the shapes.
thank you for that observation John – am taking an online art course which emphasises such