Daily Photo – Mopping Up

Daily Photo – Mopping Up
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What do you do after a heavy storm? You mop up your courtyard, obviously (not). I was still bemused by what I was seeing, workers mopping up the rain soaked courtyard around the building housing the Emerald Buddha at the Wat Phra Kaew in Bangkok.

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Daily Photo – Wat Phra Kaew After the Rain 2

Daily Photo – Wat Phra Kaew After the Rain 2
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Today's photo is a wider shot of the scene I posted a couple of days back of storm clouds at the Wat Phra Kaew in Bangkok. The storm clouds are receding, the ground is starting to dry up and more people are out in the open, though many remain in the shelter of the pavilions.

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Daily Photo – Stormy Skies

Daily Photo – Stormy Skies
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After the rain had passed I stepped out to take more photos. Talk about a cloud as black as night! As the storm that had passed over us retreated, a brief glimpse of the sun lit up the gold on the pagodas at the Wat Phra Kaew and threw the scene into dramatic contrast with the stormy skies.

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Daily Photo – Statues on Guard

Daily Photo – Statues on Guard
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Once the rain had moved on, I was able to step out from my temporary shelter and resume wandering aimlessly around. I didn't have any set goal for that day, I had just decided to wander around the Wat Phra Kaew to see what I could see.

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Daily Photo – Waiting out the Rain

Daily Photo – Waiting out the Rain
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Across the small courtyard some young me in military uniforms were sitting on the steps of a doorway while some cleaners were also huddled against a wall as the rain continued. You can see the rain spatter on the courtyard slabs and streak across the frame, particularly in the top left corner of the image below.

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