No, it’s not a rabid animal. It’s just a creek flowing into the lake, but at its mouth, there is a lot of foam.
The frothy bubbles swirled and flowed in sweeping circles, making patterns on the lake.
This is clean, clean water, but for some reason the foam formed when the water splashed over the rocks at the mouth of the creek, and stayed frothy for quite some distance into the lake.
Foam like icing on a cake,
Lightly drifting on the lake,
Swirling, flowing, curling round,
Who knows where it may be bound?
Lacy curtain for a fish,
Saves him landing in a dish,
But when he jumps in the air.
Foamy mustache he will wear.
May 27, 2021 at 6:53 pm
Hahaha. π The fish need something to help them avoid the dish!
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May 27, 2021 at 7:07 pm
I think they were hiding under that foam. I did get a nibble right around there.
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May 28, 2021 at 1:57 am
LOL! Great shots, Anneli!
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May 28, 2021 at 7:23 am
Nice to see that it gave you a chuckle, Jill.
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May 28, 2021 at 2:01 am
Dear Anneli.
GREAT poem and picture ππ
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
π π π π
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May 28, 2021 at 7:24 am
Thank you, KB. So glad you liked my bit of fun.
Have a great weekend, you Fab Four.
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May 28, 2021 at 3:28 am
I love the fish with a foamy mustache a lot. And also the fantastic pictures and the poem!
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May 28, 2021 at 7:25 am
I imagined them having a sip of something with foam on it, like when you drink a latte, or hot chocolate.
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May 28, 2021 at 8:03 am
Maybe someone poured their latte’ in the crick upstream? π Very nice photos, Anneli. β€οΈ
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May 28, 2021 at 9:19 am
Yeah, that’s what it looks like! Thanks, John.
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May 28, 2021 at 9:43 am
It was a bad joke… π€
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May 28, 2021 at 10:14 am
I suppose…. π€
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May 28, 2021 at 12:13 pm
Foamy moustache is a great image, cute poem too π
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May 28, 2021 at 8:37 pm
Glad you liked it, Belinda. Thanks.
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May 28, 2021 at 1:12 pm
So beautiful!
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May 28, 2021 at 8:38 pm
Thanks, DK. Have a great weekend.
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May 28, 2021 at 9:50 pm
Beautiful photos, Anneli. The foam really highlights the current where the stream enters the lake. A wise woman once told me where the currents meet, tends to be best for catching a fish. π
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May 29, 2021 at 6:28 am
I think that wise woman could have been right.
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May 29, 2021 at 8:00 am
Another poem for your Nature poetry collection! I love your insight and perspective on the foam. It IS protective for the fish, and perhaps they love that mustache-look. π
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May 29, 2021 at 3:01 pm
I’m sure the male trout will like the foamy mustache look, but I wonder what the female trout think about theirs. Thanks for the inspiration to keep saving my poems. I must get on that again.
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May 30, 2021 at 8:57 am
You must!! I can already envision an anthology of your poems…
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May 30, 2021 at 9:52 am
Thanks for the vote of confidence.
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May 29, 2021 at 8:34 am
A fun one, Anneli. I remember reading somewhere that foam on lakes has an organic cause. It is like icing, and those lucky fish saved from the dish. Lol. The patterns are cool. π
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May 29, 2021 at 3:06 pm
I had a hard time getting the Captain to slow the boat down enough for me to focus the camera. I ended up twisting around to try to keep the picture in the frame. I felt like Janet Blair in The Exorcist, twisting like that.
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May 29, 2021 at 4:40 pm
Ha ha. I didn’t realize you were in a boat. Great pictures. π
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May 29, 2021 at 10:27 pm
Yes, in a 12-ft. aluminum skiff.
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May 30, 2021 at 7:04 am
Perfect weather too for it.
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May 29, 2021 at 9:54 am
Do you know why? Maybe just lots of bubbles?
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May 29, 2021 at 3:07 pm
I wondered if it was something organic in the spring run-off…. Don’t really know.
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May 29, 2021 at 5:18 pm
That could be. We saw bubbles rising from a stream my sis and I crossed. Speculated it was a dead body or a fish. Not sure which.
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May 29, 2021 at 10:26 pm
Yikes! I hope it wasn’t THAT organic. I was thinking more of dead vegetation. Not dead bodies. Still … you never know!
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May 30, 2021 at 7:06 am
We didn’t speculate long on the body! Just being silly. Dead vegetation sounds likely.
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May 31, 2021 at 9:04 am
Fun and whimsical poem, Anneli, and lovely photos. The movement in this water is so beautiful, and the foam nicely enhanced the swirling.
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May 31, 2021 at 9:39 am
I wanted to get more closeups of the foam patterns but the Captain was fishing and the boat had to keep moving just then. I’ve never seen such designs of foam. Thanks for taking a look and reading my poem, Jet.
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