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Then it snowed (worst in the UK for 18 years, but only 10cm or so here). So I started all over again.
The moleis clearly carrying out annualsubway maintenance, as most of the hills are appearing in the same places as last year. Since I took this shot 3 days ago a huge hill has appearedbetween the nearly-parallel shadow lines (power poles again). That was the location where much of this summer's, and the previous summer's spoil appeared. |
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While the snow has been highly disruptive of travel, it does render the pile of sewage sludge visually quite benign.
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I hope you'll excuse this morning's quick update from the Moleological Forecasting service, showing that I wasn't exaggerating. The hills in the foreground are a bit bigger, and here are the two rapidly growing new ones near the corner of the 'lawn'. One is on an existing site, and the other's new.
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A large numberof the images I have posted in Steve's forums over the years have been shot at home through my open or closed windows. So, to feel properly in the spirit of this challenge, I have felt it necessary to show some evidence of the existence of the window ineach of myimages.
The two images aboveare the only ones where I properly overcamethe 'depth of field' challenge,by getting far enough away from the window at a wide enough angle. If you wish you can see some of the other thingsI've been shooting through the windows in this period in the Kodak forum at http://forums.steves-digicams.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=601954&forum_id=18. I'm very grateful for this 'challenge' because it caused me to explore the extremes of my modest camera's capabilities. |
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Looks like the snow is rapidly melting there too. How big are the moles you have there?
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NotDadsW41 wrote:
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I only once saw one of our tiny moles, a few summers ago, lying panting desperately (the mole, not me), in blazing sun. I erected an umbrella to shade it, hoping it would recover & crawl back into its hole. When I returned a little later it had vanished, but it may have been eaten by a passer-by. |
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Here's another supplementary, as little is happening here at the tail of the 'challenge'.
Before it snowed, I caught this load of giant molehill material on its way to build a pile in a nearby field. It nicely illustrates a major traffic problem round here. Farm vehicles have grown so that they only just fit the country lanes. When I'm driving my 2m wide campervan I may meet one of these round any blind corner. They're not as much of a hazard, however, as other 'White Van Men',rushing madly to deliver the internet shopping wherever their satnavs take them. My 80-yr old mother-in-law met a too-fast giant tractor round a bend on a nearby icy road the other day, and spun into the hedge, fortunately with little harm done. Note the TV aerial. The transmitter is on a Lancachire hilltop over 40 miles away, but in our strategic location at the top of the village, there's not a lot in the way of the signal. |
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