Nature Pics

Post by **Athrabeth** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:02 am

Gosh, it's been a while since I've browsed through this thread, but as usual, I'm just

over the pics. What a lovely way to spend some time on a wet and stormy night.
Thank-you, Voronwë!

Here's my latest submission. I'm trying.........I mean REALLY trying.....to find some beauty in rain!

Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:24 am

And succeeding marvelously.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:36 am

Even this far south, we're having outrageous amounts of rain, and the rivers are reaching flood stage. Fortunately, the most vulnerable people put their houses on stilts years ago. But it is wet wet wet. I went looking for a rain picture as lovely as yours, Ath, and found only mud.

Post by **truehobbit** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:00 pm

Beautiful, Ath!

IS, you took those pics yourself? Wow!

We call the little critter "Taubenschwänzchen" (funny looking word, isn't it?

)- "little dove-tail".

Here's a pic from the island of Rügen, in the Baltic Sea, Germany's largest island:

I don't know if the pic is before or after erosion - there was a major collapse in some of the most famous cliff shapes on the island last year.

The island itself has some beautiful landscape, though it's rather endangered by attempts to increase the capacity for tourism.

Post by **Jude** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:14 pm

Taken in Kinghorn, Fife:

Post by **IdylleSeethes** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:52 am

Impenitent and I had a synchronous event last week. I was getting ready to post this Hubble when she posted hers along with an orchard shot. In reply:

This is in Tuscany:

Post by **truehobbit** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:25 am

LOL - almost the same!

Though - I've seen the first one linked to on TORC, for, ahem, humourous reasons!

Post by **Athrabeth** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:57 am

Hmmmmm.....I'm getting fixated on water drops.

Rain falling onto the surface of a pond:

A single droplet caught falling into still water:

Post by **vison** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:11 am

Some folks think of our Whistler when they see the name Whistler. Our Whistler thinks of the painter.

Here's MY local Whistler:

This is, of course, one small corner of Whistler Mountain, for which the ski resort is named.

Post by **Inanna** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:55 am

I love rain - though the continuous one does get onto ones nerves.

A snap taken ages ago:

Post by **cemthinae** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:37 pm

Sometimes I struggle with living in Indiana... but it has some beauty too:

Post by **IdylleSeethes** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:02 am

Sometimes Indiana needs a helping hand.

Indianapolis in mid spring

Indianapolis in summer

Fort Harrison in fall

Fort Harrison in winter

Actually, Indiana has some nice scenery along the Ohio. I'll dig out some old 35mm pictures sometime.

Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:05 am

Beautiful pictures, all.

Continuing my subliminal campaign, these are both of Mt. Tamalpais, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, and one of my very favorite places:

Post by **vison** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:57 am

Gee. Are you trying to get us all to California? Or something?

Ha.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:02 am

As if.

Post by **Erunáme** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:29 pm

Ath, Prim, send some of that rain down here to us. We're in a severe drought and the two days we've actually had rain since December 7th have been GORGEOUS!!!!!!

Instead, it seems that I need to find the beauty in this:

Post by **TheTennisBallKid** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:04 am

ttbk

Post by **Athrabeth** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:27 am

Eru.......

I've never experienced drought. Both my parents came from the prairies and their "dustbowl" stories of the '30's always made me feel lucky to be raised in such a lush, green place as the southern BC coast. When it rains for weeks at a time here, I really should remind myself of that, because without rain, there wouldn't be places like this to walk:

If I could, I'd send you some rain in the mail, Eru. I hope a break in the weather comes soon.

TTBK.......is that a poinsettia I see before my eyes? I love poinsettias, but unfortunately they live on borrowed time in my house. My mother can nurture hers for years, but for me, it's six weeks - tops - and then they just lose the will to live.

I like the almost silhouette effect of the photo, with the back light shining through the red of the leaves. Very nice indeed!

Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:29 pm

Post by **Erunáme** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:38 am

Ath, neither lots of rain or no rain is good....only a fair balance. I remember there only being four days of sunshine during February when I was in Wales and it was depressing. I like the summer weather in an area my family visits in Colorado. It has afternoon showers but the rest of the day is gorgeous. That's perfect to me.

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