A very wet and cold shock!

A good thing that the weather is warm !!! an unexpected enhancement to the view, worth getting wet for Andy

Yes, Peter. Maybe it was only 5-10 minutes before it dried. It was approx midday and the temperature was already 35c (The hottest time of the day is between 3 and 5 pm and it got to 39c yesterday (over 100F certainly). It's predicted to get hotter still this week. But at least it's a DRY heat!!

Great story and a laugh out loud Andy, sorry,
Turned out a nice addition to the image though

The couple you can just about see through the spray had a good old unsporting guffaw too, Roger!
(I had probably let out a startled 'Gosh' or some such, which alerted them to my predicament!)

Superbe et belle capture reposante et rafraîchissante.
Bonne Semaine.

Pleased you like it, Malik!

Nevertheless a beautiful capture and worth it! Stay well!

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Many thanks, William!!

Love the brightness and colors here Andy.

Thanks for the refreshment, Andy ! Good Morning !

encore bien fleuri , sans doute grâce à l'arrosage

A nice shower, Andy !!! So refreshing when it is so hot !!!

LOL ! Fortunately sun and temperature helped to dry it fast...

nice

stay safe:)have a great time.

Sorry to laugh at your misfortune Andy, but that's hilarious...............but you got the shot and that's what counts :-))

... only by a nanosecond, Keith!
It always amazes me when there are water shortages most summers, that they still keep the parks looking like English Country gardens in about may!!

Frank,
Ulrich,
Daniele,
Marie-claire,
Isabel,
Annemarie,
Thank you all!

Hahaha! Oh, you know we're all laughing. It must have been a rude accent to your idyll, but I hope there were not too many people staring at you. At least you got this cool, green shot.

I had to laugh as well (after the initial unprintable expletives!).
As far as embarrassment is concerned, nothing compares with a school trip to Holland aged 11. I must have found something at breakfast that didn't agree with me. We were in Rotterdam and walking along a quayside with shops on one side.
I suddenly had need of a very swift c..p, I saw on the dock side of the road a piece of waste ground. And (oh joy of joys) a telephone directory lying there. And the space was obscured from the road by a huge pantechnicon. So I set about my business in relative relief.
Alas!
The lorry decided that this was the ideal moment to pull away. I was thus exposed to the whole of Rotterdam's Saturday morning shopping crowd.
Believe me,Diane nothing since has been that embarrassing!

Yep, that would serve as permanent desensitization to embarrassment, Andy.

Oh my goodness! That was a shock! I hope you are recovered!!?
That makes me even more impressed with this shot!!

See my reply to Diane, Rosa!!

a beautiful garden

Thank you Reinhard!

Oh you have given me a wonderful image to think about here Andy!!! At least the embarrasing wet patch didn't go unpunished - the photo is fantastic.