Rohrschach.
That’s what I thought when I took this photo. Not the perfect symmetry of a snowflake, but it’s still interesting to see a stream working through it’s snow blanket with this kind of balance.
Right down to those little dimples at the top.
Rohrschach
March 7th, 2010A Witches Brew
March 3rd, 2010
Water, barley, hops and yeast. The alchemy of brewing beer.
Seen here: the copper brew tank at the Summit Brewery in St. Paul Minnesota.
Thanks to Adobe Photoshop, and the alchemy of digital photography.
White on White
February 28th, 2010
I like this photo that I took last week because the blue sky and green cedars are in complete contrast to the surrounding white on white around here.
Hoar Frost
February 25th, 2010
I’m not much good at spelling.
At all.
Needless to say my first attempt at looking into this phenomena on line was less about meteorology and the environment than I thought it might be.
Wild Turkey
February 20th, 2010
Ah, the elusive wild turkey…
Hmm. I just found out that good old Minnesota leads the nation in the production of turkeys, with some 44.5 million birds a year (as of 2005). I would not have guessed that.
The average American eats about 17.5 pounds of turkey each year (out of a total individual consumption of some 215 pounds of meat!)
Inversion
February 16th, 2010
That air born junk will come down some day, mix with water, and then it will be in our food, and then it will be in us.
A Sticky Situation
February 11th, 2010
I hate the little stickers that get put on my fruit and veggies.
Art Cars
February 6th, 2010
A special treat today, and only the second guest photo to be published here on Be The Rain.
You are seeing Ruthann Godollei and her fantastic Volvo sedan, a true art car.
Now let’s all please go and buy Ruthann’s fabulous, brand-spanking new book (coauthored with Eric Dregni) “Road Show, Art Cars and the Museum of the Streets”. Check it out on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Show-Cars-Museum-Streets/dp/1933108177
Death by Consumption, Part 3
February 3rd, 2010
One last gem taken from Elizabeth Royte’s book “Garbage Land – The Secret Trail Of Trash”, from her chapter about plastic waste titled “Satan’s Resin”
“In 2003, Americans consumed 13 billion liters of bottled water…and global bottled-water sales reached 155 billion liters.”
Who says oil and water don’t mix?
Death By Consumption, Part 2
January 30th, 2010
This tid-bit about catalog mailings comes courtesy of Elizabeth Route from her fun book titled “Garbage Land – On The Secret Trail Of Trash”
“In 2001, American companies sent out seventeen billion of them – fifty-nine for every man, woman and child in the United States – weighing a total of 7.2 billion pounds.”
Hello?…yes,… I’d like to buy a new forest please?