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We discovered a small park with three frog ponds today. The recent winds had left quite a few leaves floating. The visible surface tension on the edges of the floating leaf caught my eye.
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One from back in the very early days of the pandemic, before most restrictions went into place. Wearing Chicago Surface Lines livery, Kenosha PCC 4606 rounds the corner from 11th Ave to 56th St in golden light, just after departing the Metra station.
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Methane gas produced by the Harnaschpolder waste water treatment plant is converted into heat and electricity.
Midden-Delfland, The Netherlands.
Architect unknown.
This image was initially explored at Highest position: 413 on Sunday, February 21, 2016 but was pushed out of the top 500 or so for the day so is not included in my explored images according to Scout.
"All the waters run to the sea and yet the sea is not full, and from the place where they began, thither they return again."
~ Ecclesiastes
I wasn't going to post another bridge image taken on this morning but I really liked how this one turned out. The bottom of the front of my lens was millimeters off of the surface of the water with the bottom of the camera resting on the shoreline. The perspective is a favorite of mine and rarely do I come away from an area that holds water without taking a few. :)
Please take a moment and click on the image to see it large on a black background. It really looks nicer that way and gives a better feeling for that "On the Water" experience. Better yet, if you have a large monitor look at it in "Original" size! And, as always, thank you in advance for looking at my work and for any comments, critiques and favorites. :)
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And a Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!!
The autumnal equinox occurred this year (2015) at 4:21 A.M. EDT on Wednesday the 23rd of September. That exact time seems so matter of fact, but I’m pretty certain I was asleep when it fell, and I never heard a thing. There are still a little over 28 days until winter solstice on December 21st at 11:48 P.M. EST, but autumn has pretty much done its thing here in North Carolina. With a few nights in at under freezing temperatures, and cold fronts with wind and rain, there are few leaves that have not already been driven from their trees.
On the surface, that seems somewhat of a harsh reality… but is it really? So many places throughout this state touched by autumn were no less than brilliant this year, and I was blessed by its splendor. It’s somewhat amazing to think that these wonderful autumnal effects are actually due to leaves dying… I can only hope to go out in a blaze like that. And, having been evicted by the wind, their beauty doesn’t just blink out… their color adds a joyful blanket wherever they fall! Joyful, that is, until it’s time to grab the rake and round them up.
I wonder… would you have known what this was without the one vivid leaf? The pressure of a hydraulic pins it to a rock just below the surface of the Eno River, yet even in the throes of death, its beauty not only speaks, but gives definition to the whole.
I’d be willing to bet that you wish there were times that others knew that there was more to you than just what comes to the surface… but that shouldn’t keep you from offering that beauty that’s just below the surface. Chuck Swindoll tells a moving story about an act of kindness in his sermon Loving What’s Kind. A cab driver picks up a woman who moved slowly and asked him to take the long way around to her destination. The driver took the time to ask her why. She explained she had no family and was headed to a hospice. She wasn’t expected to live much longer. In that moment, the driver decided to spend the day with this woman, and not charge her a fare.
I love this story because, much like this picture, it reminds me I don’t know the whole story. It’s so easy to make assumptions and judgments about others’ motives and actions when I have no right to. What if instead of assuming the worst I choose to be kind? What if I decide to be the person who makes a total stranger’s day? Since hearing this story I’ve wondered what if I was the person to pick up this woman. Would I have bothered to look beneath the surface?
Here are some reasons Chuck says we aren’t kind:
•Kindness takes extra time and we’re all in a hurry
•Kindness makes us put ourselves in someone else’s place and we’re all selfish (it doesn’t come naturally or easily)
•Kindness calls for compassion and we are by nature preoccupied and intense
•Kindness occasionally includes forgiveness but it’s so much easier to hold a grudge
Joyce and I have invited many others to my big family Thanksgiving throwdown (it’s a southern thing), including Chinese nationals (Duke University students) who have never experienced a traditional Thanksgiving typical of American families, though “typical” may be a bit of a stretch where my family’s concerned… it should be fun not only just to express, but share how God still sheds His grace on us and why we are thankful for it. I hope you can find a way to show some goodness and beauty from below the surface.
A partially frozen Llyn Caseg-fraith between Y Foel Goch and Glyder Fach. Tryfan reflected slightly in the thin ice.
This image was taken during my last Snowdonia workshop only a few weeks ago. If you'd like to join me on one of these workshops in 2017 I'll be posting details shortly on my website www.gregwhitton.com, but the first two are 27-29 Jan and 24-26 Mar. Get in touch if interested.
'Surfacing' is a Pink Floyd track off the album Endless River...it seems to fit as Tryfan appears to be perhaps a submarine, surfacing from beneath the lake.
"Surface"
Site naturel classé des Cascades du Hérisson dans le Jura (Franche Comté)
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This photo was shot on the Oregon coast. Some interesting rocks were exposed on the beach where I was at.