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Showing posts with label tunnel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tunnel. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Peek-a-boo

We went walking through the cemetery, down to the water and came across several piles of sand. Since we were going to the water, my youngest decided to bring a walking stick, so he could navigate the swamp better.

Being young, he fell upon that sand with a vengeance, among other things, driving the stick through the sand (which was wet from days of rain) to make tunnels.

'Take my picture, Dad!'

How could I resist? This tunnel was made by a broom handle, and is about 3 feet long (30cm).

Monday, March 9, 2009

Ice cave

Not a very large ice cave, to be sure! This is the remnant of the snow bank in front of my house. The water has eroded a tunnel through it; a very common sight. It takes a very tall snow bank to support a tunnel this wide though (it's about a yard / 1 metre across.)

I had a hard time deciding whether to show this or not. I see these things all the time, but there are people who haven't. When I took this, I knelt down on the kerb, put my head and camera down into the tunnel and snapped off a few shots. It's quite bright although it doesn't seem that way in the photo, and my camera isn't an SLR, so there's some parallax between the view I got through the eyepiece and what the lens captured. It was too bright to see the LCD, so I didn't know how I did until I got inside. Almost like shooting with film again!

Anyway, the melting snow all along the street is providing plenty of water to keep these supplied. Another week or so and these snowbanks will be only a memory. Spring comes quickly!

One other thing: I had some difficulty with the title. I love Babooshka's continuing series called 'Odd Shots.' I think this is a candidate for that title!
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