Friday night was my last performance of the season. I was happy about that.
Yesterday evening, I took a walk along the river.
A boat that ended up on the bank during a storm...
I walked along these railroad tracks about a mile....
Some blackberries that I ate along the way...
I noticed this on the track. It reminded me of someone special, so I hurried home.
posted by Rita @ 7:35 PM
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14 Comments:
Be careful... the Blackberries will stain ;-)
Hi! Yes they do. :)
I just had a mental image of little kids with blackberry stained mouths, fingers & clothes.
My parents used to take us blackberry picking. We would fill a five gallon bucket, 1 coffee can at a time. After we ate our fill & got bored we'd end up having a blackberry fight & throw them at each other until we were purple.
Love the hat, Rita! Did you make it?
Elizabeth
Yes, we decorate our own hats to match our costumes. The theatre has a huge wardrobe room & boxes & boxes of feathers, flowers, ribbons, etc...
Once you find the right hat, it's easy to switch the embellishments to match the costume.
I like your pics of stuff you find. Sometimes things that look great in person never look good in a photo - like landscapes - cant do them justice so often I don't bother.
Anyway we planted morning glories this spring and they have exploded so I am spending a lot of time training them and unwravelling them and building all sorts of trelli.
Rev I have the same problem with photographing landscapes. It's very hard to capture the mood. Those pictures were taken in the soft light of evening about 7:00 pm, the pictures aren't that great, but it was a nice light to photograph in.
Morning glories are beautiful. Now that would make a nice photo!
you look stunning in that pic ! wild black berries...oh that reminds of my childhood summer holidays in Kerala (India).
Wow, must have been a heck of a storm for the boat to be blown upside-down into the bushes there Rita.
....or perhaps a flash flood rose the water level. Am I correct that the water flows left to right in that photo?
Thanks prash
Those particular blackberries are Himalayan blackberry (Rubus discolor).
They are an invasive non-native species transplanted here probably in the late 1800's, it grows aggressively everywhere here & will take over yards, fields, river banks, old railroad tracks, etc...if not kept back
We even have a blackberry festival around here every year.
qf
You are correct. In the picture, the Coquille river flows from left(east) to right(west into the Pacific Ocean) This scene is about 20 miles up the river. the river at this point is still affected by the tide. The tidal influence is 45 miles. Right now is the Fall Chinook Salmon season.
At that point, the river floods it's banks nearly every winter because of the huge amount of water flowing into it during our copious rainstorms & of course all the snow melt trickling down from all the tributaries that empty into the river from all the hills in the surrounding area. I'm guessing the boat lost it's mooring during a storm & got hung up on the wood & debris as it was floating down the raging & swollen river.
qf
My explanation is a little confusing...when I say "At that point" I mean to say, "At that particular location"
BTW, how did you guess which way the river was going? It it because you know I live on the west coast or was there a clue in the picture?
It's kind of hard to tell from the water alone (one clue is a rock ripple in the bottom right quarter of the picture), and then I notice the banks has a few branches/twigs that sort of lean toward the right as well.
Inquiring minds want to know what you did when you got home :-)
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