I popped out today with my partner to have a look for some herbal plants, I like to stock up once or twice a year because I use the dried plants for teas and other home remedies. Today I was looking for tender bramble tips, hawthorn flowers, and nettles. Anyway, on the way out of the house we spotted this beautiful double rainbow. The first rainbow was really bright, the brightest rainbow I have ever seen! and the second much duller, but wider. you can just see the second rainbow in the bottom right corner.
Of course these rainbows showed themselves at a time when I was in a horrible location to photograph them, so I hurried to the fields to try to get a better shot. By the time we got out to the fields the rainbows had gone and it had got very dark and begun to rain.
I gathered up my nettle, hawthorn, and blackberry leaf, in the pouring rain, with my partner glowering at me, we had just turned to go home when the sun came out and the beautiful rainbow below appeared right over the forest.
It was so big it wouldn't fit into the camera frame, and by the time I had got far enough back to see the whole thing it had been swallowed up by clouds. See photo below, which shows it just showing from out of the clouds.
The rainbow put my partner in a much better mood, after getting wet gathering the medicinal plants, and I got all of the things that I needed, plus a half decent shot of a rainbow too. The picture below shows some of my blackberry leaves, these bundles will now be hung up and dried to use later in the year for teas. Find out more about the benefits of blackberry and how to harvest blackberry leaf here.
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