October 18, 2010

• Weekly Photo Challenge, “Water”

   

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  the Weekly Photo Challenge
  It runs for one full week from Friday mornings to late Thursday nights. 

  The challenge beginning October 08, 2010 is:

  “WATER”
  suggested by:   Featherland

   

  I love water, I drink it, cook with it, bath in it and I used to enjoy playing in it.  Our rainfall this season is down by a large percentage.  Leaves are dry and falling and the fall color is lacking but the cooler days have been, all in all, really beautiful.  We have done a bit of family visiting and enjoying drives to and from as there has been plenty of sunshine and next to no rain.  If I find myself feeling like I need a water fix we drive a few miles to the local lake to people/fisherman watch.  I do have birdbaths to play with and they need to be freshened everyday (to avoid mosquitos laying and hatching) and a rain chain (that remains pretty much quiet without rain) put in when we had installed a much needed new roof and gutters.  We had several really nice rainfalls to break the rainchain in but for now it sits and waits.  The plants and trees could really use the water.  

  Photos

  

  1-  Lake Isabelle is not far from us, about 3 miles.  We have fast food picnics there and sometimes we eat at their cook out.  It’s a nice place just to sit and take photos.

   

   

  

  2-  Some of the fishermen use the rowboats and many fish from the shore.  We take advantage of it all by taking as many photos as we can and the lake looks different at any hour of the day and reflects the time of year in the ripples and sometimes in a glass like quiet.

   

   

  

  3-  This is one of my birdbaths.  I have 5 around the yard.  You can’t soak your feet in it but the birds can and do.  You can see a bit of the rainchain behind the flowers on the right.  It hasn’t seen the amount of rain it should but it works well when the sky opens up.

   

   

  

  4-  A close up of one link in the chain taken nearly right after its installation.  The roofers had problems with timing to work on the roof because we had so much rain.  The speed for this photo is 1/200 of a second to catch the drops flying.

   

   

  

  5-  Another image at 1/15 a second.  The copper in the chain will eventually develop a patina that will meld into the background around it.  It’s a different way to enjoy the rain from your sitting area and WHEN it rains I take advantage of the view.

   

   

   

  6-  This is just after getting the rainchain hooked up at about the right length.  It needs leveling out and finishing with plants but it gives a better idea of how it works.  It’s nice and wet and watery when its raining.

   

  I always enjoy playing with my photos and the water challenge gave me something to do with my rainchain photos which seemed until now a bit useless.  Anyway, I enjoyed the fun. 

  Thanks for your visits and any comments.  Have a great week.
    

   

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