--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > 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.
Barry, just wondering if you took that photo of the light on water from the location pictured below. > > 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_530703030\ \ > 287168_411824051_n.jpg] >
