A Photo a Week: Water Living in a watershed valley, there really is water everywhere. No ocean, but I don’t believe you can live anywhere in this valley and be more than a quarter of a mile from a river, stream,… Read More ›
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CLIMATE CHANGES ARE US
Fandango’s Provocative Question #131 There is no serious dispute by anyone that humans hold significant responsibility for damaging Earth’s ecology. You can’t label water pollution or unbreathable air as caused by anything the earth does to itself — short of being… Read More ›
ECOLOGY, HUMAN GREED, AND UPCOMING CATASTROPHES
I read an article today that argues that coal-burning generators are not doing all that much damage to the climate. This is the kind of argument that makes me gag. I’ll get back to this later. There is no serious… Read More ›
RIVER REFLECTIONS
A Photo a Week Challenge: Reflection Sometimes, the reflections in the water is so sharp, it looks more “real” than the non-reflection above it. But always, because we live by rivers and ponds that are not fast flowing, reflections double the… Read More ›
REFLECTIONS & MIRRORS IN BLACK & WHITE
CBWC: Reflections and Mirrors I haven’t taken a lot of pictures of mirrors, but there’s a lot of reflection in windows, lakes, and rivers.
PICK A TOPIC
CMMC – June Pick a Topic from my Photo Cee suggests any of the following possible topics: This photo is of the Oregon Coast Possible topics coast, water, ocean, blue, teal, white, brown, rocks, waves, landscape, candid, people, family, etc. What else can… Read More ›
THE WATER BILL: A BIT OF FICTION
Maggie stood in the kitchen looking at the water bill in astonishment. $5,000 dollars? Were they kidding? She looked at the usage. Half a million gallons? That was the size of a lake. A pretty big lake. “That’s insane,” she… Read More ›
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT — THE BLACKSTONE RIVER IN OUR VALLEY
CFFC: Water – Blackstone River and Its Valley: A River Runs Through It I think if I were to describe the valley in which we live, I would say “A river runs through it.” In fact, the Blackstone River defines… Read More ›
THE MARINA
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Anything to Do With Boats Cee wanted anything to do with boats. Well, as it turned out, we got a few boats — and some gulls that liked to hang out with the boats. A few… Read More ›
WATER WATER – Marilyn Armstrong
THE BLACKSTONE RIVER The Blackstone is 47 miles long and drops sharply throughout it’s descent from the hill in Worcester to Nantucket Bay. It twists and turns so that if you live in the Valley, you are never more than… Read More ›
BLUE KAYAK ON A BLUE DAY BY THE BLACKSTONE 4 – Marilyn Armstrong
July Blues – 4 Early in June, we went to the Blackstone River in Smithfield and met two kayakers. One was setting out in a blue kayak, the other in a red one. The sun was bright and the blue… Read More ›
A FEW PICTURES FROM HOUSE AND SHORE – Garry Armstrong
I took most of the pictures. Marilyn was off-duty this time. There are a lot more, but this is a little taste of our weekend with Tom and Ellen. We didn’t go out because the sea was a bit high,… Read More ›
