Cool photo. Almost looks like an impressionist work.
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of turquoiseb Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:49 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Light On Water So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family. And the walk was just smokin', which is why I'm writing about it. Really uplifting and wonderful. Consider this my belated Wussy Wednesday submission. Also, just in case the world really does end in a few minutes, consider it one of my last comments on it. One of the benefits of living in a tight, crowded-by-some-people's-standards, inner-city, European 'hood is that you get to Walk In History. The house behind ours, situated on the canal that used to be just inside the fortified walls of this medieval city, was built in 1660. The canal predates it, commerce tending in history to predate the lifestyles of those who profited from it. The Herengracht is not officially one of the biggest or most significant of the waterways in my city, but it has its charms. All of the buildings gracing its banks are built using the same Dutch red brick building style as the 1660 house, although many were built more recently. And they're cool and all. But turn aside from them, walk a few feet to the actual canal itself and look around, and what you find yourself in is a world of Light On Water. The water in the canal is not static. It's not a passive watcher of this whole scene. It's more of an active participant, taking the light reflected from the street lights and the house lights and the moon and the occasional (it's the Netherlands) star, and reflecting them on, cooler than they were when they arrived. It's almost as if the water in the canal is an artist, taking the incoming light and then bouncing it off of its everchanging surface and reflecting it onward kinda bent, and thus more interesting. A streetlight seen directly is all solid and all...kinda boring. But look at the reflection of the streetlight in the Herengracht and you see this pulsating, everchanging globule of light, with no fixed boundaries and no particular need to adapt itself to them. It's a cool effect. I kinda like it. <https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/598589_5307030302871 68_411824051_n.jpg>
