Another tidemark

I was not particularly aware of serious rain last night, but there had clearly been a lot of water down the Longmead Road stream over the past few days.

Water not particularly high this morning, but the plants on the first foot or so of bank above water had taken a recent bashing and there were three tide marks on the grass above the stream towards the northern end of the road.

The inner two can be seen in this snap, with the outer third not visible at this angle, but not far from the pavement. Doesn't look as if the water made it to the road on that occasion. My guess would be that these tidemarks would be messed about when the grass was mowed, which seems to happen every few weeks, but they were probably not the work of last night's water.

See reference 1 for the last recorded occasion, a bit more than a year ago.

PS: notice also the two carex pendula, with the one further away from the camera being a particularly fine specimen. See reference 2 for this year's snap of a similar specimen on the Isle of Wight, and reference 3 for last year's snap. I might add that I am encouraging some young plants in the southern end of our new daffodil bed, where the daffodils are not doing much. Plants which are making a slow start to life.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/rain-2.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/carex-pendula.html.

Reference 3: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/carex.html.