Towards the End of August

The days are shorter now, the night cool; mist seeps up from the path of the stream and fills parts of the valley. I put a bouquet of flowers outside and the next morning the vase was full of condensation, so beautiful.

condensation 1, 2015

condensation 2, 2015

Condensation 3, 2015

Getting Colder

We came close to having a frost the other night and when I came downstairs it took me a few minutes [I hadn't had a coffee yet] to figure out what was different. The old windows in the living room were covered with condensation. A job for this week-end. Put on the double windows. I love these old windows and while I know they are not in any way energy efficient, replacing them gets lower and lower on the list. To see more of these old beauties you can click here, and here.

Lovely old windows

Water Worlds

There has been a lot of extreme weather about lately. Vicious tornados in the States, flooding in Australia: a hard and scary time for a lot of people. Here the wind is howling as I write this and we are going through the usual pre-spring gamut of conditions with various stages of water about, snow, rain, ice pellets, icicles and puddles. And with the macro lens, I am still trying for that elusive water drop but until that moment these will do.

Another water drop

Condensation on the kitchen window

Another Grid

I came down stairs the other morning to find the living room windows fogged over. We need to get the storm windows on, hopefully this week end. Meanwhile I love the patterns  and the texture the condensation has created.

My foggy windows