Vedavati bought a new phone. That means she also has a new phone camera! She said: I am loving the new camera. Not so sure about loving the different style of spell wrecker.
Amritapuri, India Flowers #2
Category: Nature
Photos from Amritapuri, India Window
Vedavati sent this photo of Thursday’s sunset.
She went on to say: “This is the 1st sunset in a while that we had any clouds.” and “I was watching the sunset and all of a sudden these birds started flying and I thought wouldnt it be fun if I got a shot of a bird. Didn’t expect this!”
I decided to surprise her by cropping the bird photo. It didn’t come out clear but looks ethereal to me. Other worldly!
Amritapuri, India Flowers #1
Vedavati has been sending me flower photos from Amritapuri. The last one she sent, she mentioned wishing that she could crop the photo so the flower filled the page. I figured it out although I’m not sure I could repeat it. Enjoy.
From Amritapuri, India Window #3
Vedavati sent me another evening sun photo with these comments: The evening sun- beams on the water. See close to shore how pink it is? I’ve never seen the sunlight reflecting similar to moonlight before.
From Amritapuri, India Window #2
During my night, Vedavati sent me a sunset photo from a few days back.
She sent this comment along with the photo:
Sometimes my jaw simply drops at the beauty.
(Both the photo and the comment were used with permission.)
From Amritapuri, India Window
My friend Vedavati captured this beautiful scene Saturday night in India. (They are 13 1/2 hours ahead of Seattle.)
Watching the Creek from My Window- Part 5
There was so much snow in the Northwest last week. Many people in the Seattle-Bellevue-Woodinville areas were snowed in until yesterday. It was supposed to snow here all through the night last night but this morning the snow was mostly gone. It had rained instead.
I took a video of the creek this morning. Balancing myself, my walker and the camera was tough. So it is not the best video but it shows what I wanted to show you.
Watching the Creek (and more) from My Window- Part 4
The first predictions of snow were really off. However the one for the day after Christmas was quite accurate.
When it was light enough to look outside, it was a beautiful sight to behold. From inside my room I could look out the window and see the snow. (I am appreciating how often they clean the windows here. It makes it possible for me to take clear pictures.)
After I got dressed, I walked, using my walker, down to the lobby to get my morning pastry and to fill out and turn in my dinner menu. I looked out the front window of the facility and saw so much snow. There was someone in the parking lot using a snow shovel to clear the sidewalks. That would certainly be a huge and time consuming job.
The first time I looked at the creek I thought I saw the water moving.
When I looked at it a couple hours later it looked frozen. I thought it was a possibility considering by then it was 27 or 28° degrees outside. I imagine there was water still running under the ice.
The snow stopped much earlier in the day than forecasted. It will completely stop by 7 pm.
And then on Thursday it may start again!
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The day after. No wonder I’m cold.
Watching the Creek from My Window- Part 3
I have written two other posts about the creek outside my window in Woodinville. I have changed the titles of those articles to include this title and have added Part 1 or Part 2.
In the last installment I mentioned that even if the creek contains a lot of water during the rains, the water disappears and the ground once again becomes muddy soon after the rain stops. This photo is a good example of what I mean.
This week it has been raining a lot. One day, I looked outside and the water in the creek had a current. I made a video to show you the current. Look at the left side of the video.
We often don’t get the weather that is forecasted. If even part of this happens, it is going to get interesting around here. Take a look at the temperatures that have been forecasted for later in the week.
Transformation: Watching the Creek from My Window- Part 2
For most of the time I’ve been here, what is called the “creek” has just been dry ground. On the rare occasions that it rained though, some puddles formed. When it began to rain more frequently, the puddles lasted longer and then turned to mud.
About two weeks ago, there was a big windstorm and at least one tree fell. (There are pictures related to that incident in my last post.) Since then, friends and I have speculated that one fallen tree might have pulled others over as it tumbled.
Last week it rained heavily. The next time I pulled up the blinds, I had the view below of the creek. I couldn’t believe my eyes. This time it looked more like a lake.
If it hadn’t stopped raining the water likely would have soon gone over the embankment and probably would have made it to my building.
The water was significantly down by the afternoon. I could see ducks, along with a brown animal, playing in the water. When I looked at the brown animal, the word mongoose came to my mind.
I found a picture of a mongoose on the internet. The brown animal could have been a mongoose, but it could also have been something else.
(I’m not wearing glasses regularly nowadays because they fog up when I am wearing a mask and if I have any screen time on the laptop or phone my eyes get blurry so my eyesight is almost never clear.)
The next day the creek was back to just mud and puddles. More logs and branches were visible and they were closer to me. I suspect some had been submerged when I last looked and had become visible again when the lake turned to mud.
Also, it was possible that other trees had fallen in the storms and maybe there was running water under the still water. If so, tree parts may have been washed downstream and were caught here when the creek became mud again.
Living, Learning and Letting Go 