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A May Afternoon in Bristow, VA, with the Girls |
The lake is really high for this time of year because of last night's rain. It' also a muddy color, the result of all the run off from the stream beds and farms. It's so high that we are a bit worried about our dock, as it's touching the bottom runners near shore. As long as we don't have another storm like last night, we should be fine and I am here to monitor it in case I need to put barrels of water on the pieces to keep them from floating away.
We actually sat out on the dock for a couple of hours after lunch. The clouds were amazing, puffs of white in all sorts of configurations, off over the bay, with a blue sky and a wind from the north, though it was pleasant. We spent most of our time reading, Evie talking on the phone, and watching both the purple martins and barn swallows fly, presumably chasing a mate, as the swooped, dipped, turned on literally a dime, 180 degrees. They are amazing flyer's, fun to watch, and for some reason, they swoop down and dip into the water, mostly swallows, I think, but an occasional martin as well. We have not seen this before and wonder what they are after, perhaps some floating flotsam from the storm, certainly not fish. Perhaps they are just cooling off, or cleaning up, after their flying. They are fun to watch.
As I write, we are sipping mannies, listening to the radio, enjoying the beginning of a setting sun, a couple hours away actually, with Evie playing Scrabble on her Ipad, me filling on my Blog. We give ourselves ten minutes of computer/ipad time, then we put away our devices and enjoy the evening. It's been a beautiful afternoon after a storm morning. We feel lucky.
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