I tooks these photos a few years ago when I was still living on the acreage in the Alberta foothills. My place was 10 ½ acres mostly in poplar and spruce woods, with some native short grass pastures that had never been turned. It was on a hill overlooking an unpopulated valley, with the mountain peaks just beyond. I had my own well and a pump down by the barn; you can see it in the first photo. One hot spring day I after I’d filled the stock tank, I just stood for a moment and let the cool water run over my hands. For a moment I had a kind of epiphany, envisioning the flow of rain, racing down the mountains, soaking into the land, filling the underground aquifer beneath my feet, rising up through the pump, and finally the water traveling across my skin before splashing back down onto the dry earth. Later that day, I saw what I call heliospouts (officially, crespuscular rays). When I was a kid we used to say it was the "sun drawing water" as if the rays were huge straws that the sun used to take up the moisture from the land, in order to have it fall again as rain. And I remembered the feel of the cool water on my hands, and I felt that for a moment I had been just as much a part of the water cycle as the grass and the rain and the rocks.
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Beautiful post! I love the pictures, but then I'm a horse lover.
That is beautiful. What a wonderful feeling it must have been.
We used to alway call it drawing water also....I hadn't thought of that term for a while. I really like the pictures you posted here...makes me wish I was there.
Okay, two things...when I clicked on your name in my comments to come here, it gave me this website: http://notesfromthecludmessenger.blgospot.com/
It is not a bad website or anything--just not yours.
As for what bracketing is--take the photos doing the settings manually, then overexpose one shot and underexpose one...or you can do a couple shots on both sides of what the camera says is the correct setting. Sometimes you can get a better picture that way.
Or, on my camera I can set it to automatically bracket the shots. I tend to forget that it will do that automatically and don't think to use it...actually, I forget how to set it to do it cause I don't use it enough.:)
I went back to older comments from you and they are the correct link...I have kind of been looking on how to correct it and haven't come up with a solution for sure...but maybe try making a comment either and maybe down below where it has Google/Blogger--click on use a different account and enter your name and I think it was password it called for.
If that don't work, go to publishing a post, when there click on settings, and after that click on publishing and see if it has the correct URL for your blog. Or maybe you might want to try that first...I am not sure either one will help but it is something to try.
loved the 1st pic and the post!!
Beautiful thoughts here. We are after all, mostly water, or mostly spirit. Perhaps the interface is very thin...or so I envision.
Lovely vista. I love the mention of the 'sun drawing water through a drinking straw', oh for those summer days and Alberta skies once more. I lived in the mountains for a year and then a year on the prairies.
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