Great excitement this morning. A warm light bathed the maple trunks on the hillside below our house. I hadn’t seen sunshine in days and days and days. I grabbed the camera, took this quick snap of the trees and came back in the house.
Moments later, as the sun rose higher, the light changed and I had to go out on deck for another picture.
The brightness extended to the bay on the left and lit up the water.
Ignoring the ugly hydro line, do you see the colour difference right about where the line crosses the photo? We’ve had so much rain lately that the small silt-laden rivers that empty into the bay have turned the water brown near their mouth.
Flooding and excess run-off have necessitated yet another “Boil Water Advisory” for the town. I’m so thankful to be living outside of town and having our own well that is very, very, very deep, with clear, wonderful water.
The townspeople must be thinking of the lines of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” where he says, “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.”
Do you have boil water advisories in your area? Flooding? Any sunshine?
November 26, 2017 at 11:21 am
No boiling here. Thank goodness!
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November 26, 2017 at 11:22 am
Glad to hear that.
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November 26, 2017 at 11:25 am
I think you’re getting all of our rain, Anneli. We’ve been quite dry.
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November 26, 2017 at 11:44 am
We are getting extremes for the last few years. Hot and dry summers that leave us crying for rain, and then wet and windy winters that bring us too much of a good thing.
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November 26, 2017 at 11:33 am
Hi Anneli,
Now that’s interesting: flooding causes your city water to be contaminated?! You’re lucky then, with your own well. Btw, we have our own one, too, and are happy with it. The advantage: we are not bound by the city’s water restrictions, though we try to comply with them, as all the water comes from the same aquifer. Or maybe not, as our well is fairly shallow at 180 feet. The city wells – way outside the city limits – must go much, much deeper. But still, even having our own well does not mean we waste water. Talking of contamination: I’ve never heard of it happening here with city water. Our own water is ok, btw. We had it tested only recently. So we hope atht, with what the draught of the last years, the well will still go on producing.
Have a wonderfrul day,
Pit
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November 26, 2017 at 11:47 am
I think they are trying to do something about the water situation in town. The intake pipe for the city’s drinking water is in the lake behind town and I’ve heard rumours that they are trying to lower that pipe. Not sure on this, but whatever they do, I hope they can fix it.
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November 26, 2017 at 11:33 am
Great photo Anneli, a clear line between the silt and clear. Sorry about all that rain, please send it to our Mojave Desert! ❤️
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November 26, 2017 at 11:47 am
It’s just not fair, is it?!
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November 26, 2017 at 11:48 am
Let’s hope for clean water, then.
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November 26, 2017 at 12:11 pm
Yes, we don’t realize how important it is until we don’t have it.
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November 26, 2017 at 12:35 pm
True: mankind can survive without oil [even if some doubt it], but not without water [and many don’t realize it].
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November 26, 2017 at 1:29 pm
Sunshine – yes. Boiling – no. You captured a beautiful light show on the trees.
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November 26, 2017 at 1:31 pm
Glad you have some sunshine.
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November 26, 2017 at 2:18 pm
no boiling and a bit of sun peeking through the clouds
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November 26, 2017 at 2:42 pm
Isn’t that little peek of sun just so precious these days?!
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November 26, 2017 at 3:26 pm
In the mountains of West Virginia. Used to live in Michigan. In WV though, the flooding can get bad. Constant water mains bust. I am amazed they are buried so shallow in the south. It still gets quite cold here. Just seems the “freeze line” would still be deeper than the lines are buried.
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November 26, 2017 at 5:44 pm
In northern British Columbia they put the water lines at least 8 feet below ground and as far as I know those lines didn’t freeze but of course they have to come up somewhere to go into the houses…. But here in southern BC that isn’t a problem. Flooding is mainly from the rivers overflowing, especially when combined with extra high tides and the wind blowing the wrong way.
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November 26, 2017 at 3:26 pm
Those are beautiful pictures also!! 🙂
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November 26, 2017 at 5:44 pm
Thanks so much.
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November 26, 2017 at 6:16 pm
🙂
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November 26, 2017 at 5:07 pm
I have read that water will be the “oil” of the future due to expected shortages and the effect of pollution. We are lucky to have an abundance of water in Oregon, so far. Loved the photos…you live in a gorgeous place!
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November 26, 2017 at 5:46 pm
I love it here in the summer, and in the winter, I suppose there are worse places, but I wouldn’t mind a bit more warmth. (Greedy me. I want it all.)
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November 26, 2017 at 5:47 pm
Mexico? A writer’s retreat in Cabo?
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November 26, 2017 at 5:53 pm
We used to do that. Guess we got tired of Mexico after a while. And I don’t like to go anywhere if I have to put my dogs in a kennel so now it’s trailer/camping holidays with the dogs whenever possible.
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November 26, 2017 at 6:32 pm
I understand. I miss my dog so much. She is being taken care of my a good friend so no kennel. I have been gone over a month this time.
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November 26, 2017 at 7:27 pm
That’s what we did too. A good friend looked after our dog, but now the friend needs looking after too. Time changes things.
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November 26, 2017 at 6:00 pm
I just read your comment a second time, Lori. I thought at first you said a winter’s retreat. Hence my first answer. Now a writer’s retreat would be even better! Any time! Actually, I was in Melaque (near Manzanillo) when I started writing Julia’s Violinist. I wrote a lot of it in Mexican students’ notebooks while sitting at the beach and then later I’d go back to our bungalow to transcribe it to the laptop. I still have those notebooks. They’re little treasures now.
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November 26, 2017 at 6:37 pm
I think getting away to write would be wonderful…no interruptions or distractions. I am trying to write regularly but it is difficult.
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November 26, 2017 at 7:25 pm
I know! There are so many things that get in the way of writing about life. Life, for example.
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November 26, 2017 at 5:19 pm
Nice to see the sun. Too bad about all the flooding.
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November 26, 2017 at 5:47 pm
Some areas around here are used to flooding but it’s the extra soil being washed along the rivers that is contributing to the messed up drinking water.
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November 26, 2017 at 5:24 pm
Beautiful photos 🙂
Thank you.
Cheers !
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November 26, 2017 at 5:48 pm
TY, Hans. I guess it’s nice and warm in Florida just now. Have you moved yet?
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November 26, 2017 at 8:33 pm
Such beautiful and detailed photos. We have Phoenix city water and our water has a big turbidity problem. We are trying to get the city to help us. They are working against our interests. We have to filter our water for drinking for us and the cats, but I worry about our ice and water for cooking.
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November 26, 2017 at 11:06 pm
THAT’S the word I’ve been trying to think of – turbidity! I’m surprised it’s like that in Phoenix though. Any idea of the cause?
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November 27, 2017 at 7:04 am
No boiling here thankfully. It is rather cold and grey and windy here in Donegal.
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November 27, 2017 at 9:09 am
Sounds a lot like here.
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November 27, 2017 at 7:49 am
Nice photos! We have too much sun and am hoping for snow!! Going to be 70 degrees today!
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November 27, 2017 at 9:11 am
Awww! Too much sun. Too bad. Must be hard to take. I know what you mean though – no clouds, no snow. But 70 degrees is pretty nice. Maybe you can go swimming instead. 😉
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November 27, 2017 at 8:01 am
We have to buy bottled water for drinking and to clean our teeth. We can´t have a good well since we are “sitting” on hard rocks. So we have to do with the well dug into the creek in front of the house. We filter it and for cooking and bathing it’s good enough. Our very small village has no water from the bigger village – maybe one day it will happen. Beautiful pictures!
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November 27, 2017 at 9:12 am
I guess we shouldn’t complain. It shows us, though, how precious good water is.
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November 27, 2017 at 8:32 am
It was cloudy here for a week before Thanksgiving, then on that Thursday the clouds broke open to reveal beautiful cobalt blue. It’s been sunny since, but it’s supposed to get cloudy later today. We haven’t had to boil water in this area yet. We live in a pretty busy suburb, so no well-water here. We did have flooding back in June, then we dried out for the rest of the year and entered a drought!
Enjoy that sun. When it’s been gone that long, it’s a joy to have when it shows up again. IOW, it’s easy to appreciate it. I hated the constant beating sun rays when I lived in Florida and used to long for clouds. Now I’ve got a wonderful mix of both.
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November 27, 2017 at 9:15 am
I agree. Too much of anything is not nice. Unfortunately, this seems to be the way our climate is changing. We used to get a mix of sunny days and cloudy days all year round, but now it’s extremes — too much drought and heat in the summer and too much wind and rain (and snow) in the winter. It’s all or nothing nowadays.
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November 27, 2017 at 11:29 am
I like the contrast of the two clarities of water. Our river has risen a bit and become somewhat muddy too because of the rain and snowmelt over the past week.
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November 27, 2017 at 11:47 am
I suppose it’s better than wildfires.
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November 28, 2017 at 1:40 am
“warm light bathed the maple trunks”. Can see and feel this!
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November 28, 2017 at 9:02 am
Thank you for appreciating my choice of words, David. This is just how it l felt as I looked out the window that morning. Such a soothing light it was. Well, that light is long gone and we had heavy downpours of rain all night, clouds this morning, and fresh snow high up on the hills.
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November 28, 2017 at 9:38 am
Well, I’m also here in the NW, Anneli, and it’s just been rain with about 10 minutes of sunshine every afternoon. No flooding, thank goodness! I love the two photos of the trees and the color difference. Isn’t that amazing. Light transforms the world. 🙂
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November 28, 2017 at 10:17 am
I almost didn’t post the two pictures because people might wonder what I’d done to them to make the light so different but that is really how it was when the light changed in just minutes! You’re so right. “Light transforms the world.” Can tell you write fantasy, but this was real. Sometimes there’s not much difference, between the two, is there?
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November 28, 2017 at 11:44 am
Our world is magical, Anneli. All we have to do sometimes is notice. I’m so glad you posted both. It’s amazing.
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November 28, 2017 at 2:55 pm
Thanks again, D.
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November 28, 2017 at 12:15 pm
“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” Right, Coleridge. And Tommy Steele (can hardly imagine there were fights among us young teenagers about who supported Tommy and who loved Elvis). Just one more time Tommy Steele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiRrz1XwYu0
Ellington
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November 28, 2017 at 2:59 pm
I’d never even heard of him. Thanks for this link, Arletta.
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November 30, 2017 at 3:15 pm
Well water is the best, and as our planet’s temps change, and as water becomes more and more polluted and affected by the environment, a deep well is a treasure. Your photos are gorgeous.
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December 1, 2017 at 11:22 am
Hi. I wrote you a long comment here yesterday, but it didn’t go through (a problem from my side I think). I’m hoping this one works. I think wells are wonderful. We had one for 10 years in New England and it was marvelous. We’ve never had a problem with our town water fortunately in our other places though.
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December 18, 2017 at 7:01 pm
We have had snow, rain sprinkles and frosty mornings. I like the bright white branches and the golden ones, too. 🌞☀
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December 18, 2017 at 7:10 pm
I hear that we’re supposed to be getting snow too.
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December 18, 2017 at 8:13 pm
Oh, my! I am happy if we stay mild and skip the snow and especially, I dislike ice!
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