February 12, 2010

• Weekly Photo Challenge, “Water, In Motion”

  
  

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  The challenge for the week of February 5, 2010 is: 
  Photos for “ Water, In Motion “
  suggested by, JayneBug
  

   

  It’s so cold here THINKING about a lot of water freezes my innards but, 

   

   

  A mix of photos, some older, some taken this year.

   

   

  

  1- This is a locally taken photo, of an Ohio rainy day.  The Waters in Motion comes from the skies to the roads and fields where it travels in rivulets or torrents to streams or city systems where it makes its way to rivers and oceans around the world.  The same water falls year after year being taken back to the clouds by evaporation.  There is only so much of it and the cleaner we keep it the better off we are as it is necessary for living no matter if you walk on two legs or four or even eight as nothing lives without it.  The amount of dirt, filth and sewage, because of the numbers of people in the world who use the resource, makes it difficult to keep it fresh, clean and suitable for use.  We may or may not believe in global warming but to take what we drink lightly and to not be concerned about our water supplies is foolish if not foolhardy.  Treat our water supplies with kindness. 

   

   

   

  

  2-  This is what ”Waters in Motion” looks like running off a windshield and this is parked, not moving so not causing even worse visibility from the mile per hour force of the drops coming at you.  I’ve seen it much worse. 

   

   

   

  

  3-  Another local image, a very nice living area with a man made lake.  Even man made lakes must have a source of Waters in Motion running to and from it to keep the lake fresh and livable for fish, turtles, frogs and water snakes.  Just because someone can afford to live in an area like this one does not in fact make them good stewards of water supplies.  Many people think nothing of dropping any type of garbage into the lakes, rivers, streams and oceans and on roadsides where run off  finally carries the trash into the larger waters of rivers and oceans. 

   

   

   

  

  4-  This little running stream runs along and between farmland and the highway.  As it runs through man made culverts that are sometimes dry, I assume it is runoff from the farmlands during or after rainstorms.  The run off carries germicides, pesticides, and fertilizers off the land.  These things run into the rivers and oceans and affect the populace of creatures that live there.  If they don’t die from their intake of chemicals, the chemicals build up in their bodily systems to be eaten and built up by larger animals or fish living in the same waters.  Eventually these same chemicals reach our tables.  I’m not sure what the answer is but I do think we need refreshers on how to take care of the things that we need in order to survive.  I love the heavens, stars and moon and planets but have never in any instance wanted to go live on any of them to get away from a destroyed Earth.

   

   

   

  

  5-  Another lovely farm pond that offers to its owners fishing and a really nice swimming hole and in this case it’s large enough to boat on.  Most of us would like to have what we see here but taking care of it offers hugh problems even families who have inherited the land have not come to grips with.  The American Indian looks at the Earth as a Mother from where all sustenance comes.  It’s a thought worth keeping in the back of our minds.

     

   

   

  

  6-  The fields here are ripe with grain and none of it could happen without “Waters in Motion” either fresh from the skies or from irrigation ditches in dryer areas.  No water; no fields of corn, wheat, rye, oats, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, lettuce, beans, broccoli, beets, sweet potatoes, rutabaga, clover hay for cattle or the simplest of grasses for the animals to eat.  None of the grasses or hays amounts to no beef cattle, sheep, pigs or wild game.

   

   

   

  

  7-  One of the rivers that receives all the run off from Waters in Motion wherever they are.  In the spring it’s normal for snows to melt and send the cold flowing running waters from the mountains to the streams and rivers and beyond.  It looks very peaceful in the evening when you can’t see what careless people have left behind in the way of garbage left from picnics and fishing line broken and left on the ground or in the lake to tangle the legs of the geese that come to feed.  I have picked up loads of garbage from spots people say they love to frequent and I have no understanding of where there thinking is when they are so careless with what they say is so important.

   

   

  Thanks for stopping to view my photos and to put up with my thoughts that may sometimes be uncomfortable.  
  May all your encounters with running waters be safe, pleasant and warm. 

   

  Keep on taking those photos.
  

   

   

   

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