I wrote three post this morning and deleted the first two which were rants. It was a case where once written their purpose was served and I moved on–never intended to post them.
I sometimes loose patience with people who deal in inflexible absolutes. Often complexity is best just acknowledged, there may not be one single answer for each question and different people traveling to the same goal can travel different but equally correct paths. ~sigh~ :-)
These photos are of the backwaters leading to “Fred’s Pond”…yes, that the name of it. I don’t know who Fred was but they named a very small park pond in North Carolina after him.
So don’t give up your dreams of being famous and having something named after you, there’s still hope–it happened to Fred! ;-)
Backwater – water backed up in its course : an isolated or backward place or condition.
That’s interesting, Earl. Well, at least you blew off some steam, so the posts served their purposes. I write a journal, which is where I dump the ‘baggage’, so to speak. Lately, I’ve been writing in a whole lot. A lot more than I would like! Sigh …
Off topic: I was looking at the numbers on your most viewed posts! Wow! Those on some numbers! People must really be into the Mac stuff! Imagine what the numbers would look like if you were talking about Windoze!
@Paul – Yeah, I think everyone has to “blow off steam” or “dump the baggage” every once in a while…often just writing it down and then deleting it helps me get it out of my system.
Those most viewed posts are mainly Mac and technical “how-to” post. Those types of posts get a lot of hits but are also a lot of work. Nope, my heart wouldn’t be into doing Windoze articles… :-)
I like the brushy look of Fred’s Pond. I like the second photo for its pock-marked water. Attractive shots.
@don – Thanks! It was raining which accounts for those pock-marks.
While I like both photos very much, the second one is my favorite. So much atmosphere. I can feel the dampness in the air. Wonderful sense of time and place.
I admit that you got me curious about the ditched rant. I know I have done that a few times and found it quite therapeutic. Speaking of “inflexible absolutes”, sometimes people write things that just send me around the bend and I have to get the ire out of my system.
@Anita Jesse – I shot the second photo from between the hand rails of a small foot bridge–the dampness was real.
The rant was after reading something on another photographers blog which as you said “sent me around the bend.” It took two not so polite blog drafts of my own before I sanely decided to not start a war of words. In truth this persons opinion isn’t very important to me, so why bother. Still, being a red head, I sometimes lapse back into my terrible temper. :-)