My favourite thing to do in the rain

Does something you've done twice count as a hobby? If so, one of my favourite hobbies is taking pictures of roses wet with rain on damp afternoons, until the damp turns into drizzle turns back into rain.

I only use my baby point-and-shoot digital camera, but I love these photos, and I don't care how much of a cliche pictures of flowers are. I love the way the roses are all crumpled, tattered and scorched by the rain and the cold weather setting in, and the colours fading and merging in the background. I love crouching in the wet grass and really taking time to look.

So here are roses.