With apologies, sort of, to the Monty Python Troupe….
After photographing the moon, I set out for Hanks Meadow a little distance from the Lookout. The fog was increasing and there is another tree that I like as much as the maple that you saw here a few posts back. In this case it is a birch (a river birch, I think).
That’s not all that different.
But wait…there’s more. After shooting this, I returned to Enfield Lookout to see what the increasing fog was doing there. The reservoir was blanketed in a rolling fog (much like the one in my head) and it filled the valleys in the distance as I looked toward Monadnock. So here is yet again a shot of the mountain and Quabbin Valley but with a very different look and feel.
This and yesterday’s post pretty much covers my Christmas Day. Mary Beth and I don’t exchange much, just some little novelty food things, but Nature did come through in a big way. 🙂
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You did well. I like the look and feel of fog in the valleys.
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Thanks, Jim. Those hills and valleys are so photogenic.
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Gorgeous black & white images…On behalf of Monty Python’s Troupe I will tell you no apology is necessary.
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Send them my best regards, Charlie. 😉
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Loved that birch, Steve. Was there just yesterday just before closing. Have a couple shots from Hanks Meadow but not seeing deer much these days! Maybe too many cars parked there lately!!
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I am in the park very early, Faith, and have not seen many deer then either. Lots of turkeys but the deer are either hiding or their numbers may be cycling low this year.
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I continue enjoy the trees that you photograph in B& W. The tree is shrouded in an ethereal and serene fog. Just my kind of scene. It’s fantastic and I think this would make a great print.
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Thanks, Yvonne. I am getting ready to start making prints for my town hall exhibit coming up in March. I still haven’t decided on which prints to hang but this may be one of them. I am thinking of going all black and white for this one.
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Both are super images. A top notch Christmas gift. I think you have found the holy grail.
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Thanks, Andrew. Can I take a sip or two out of that Grail?
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Oh yes, I like the second image very well. Seems like you were quite busy on the Holiday. D
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It was a very successful morning for sure, David. That second one is looking in your direction, I think, although you would be behind the mountain somewhere.
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Not many gifts could top these scenes.
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Thanks, Ann. Definitely a morning to be thankful for.
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The second photo’s a beauty. As I’ve said, probably ad nauseum, that kind of thick, rolling fog reminds me of San Francisco.
That view needs a song. How about, “Down in the valley, valley so low, see how the fog ebbs, see how it flows…” 🙂
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Oh, I love that song! Can’t remember what the original words are, now. Fog ebbing is perfect, and yes, San Francisco for sure!
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I found a 1929 recording in #6 at
https://archive.org/details/DarbyAndTarlton-01-08
and more information about the song at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_in_the_Valley_%28folk_song%29. Being a folk song, its words vary.
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Thank you, Steve. I really enjoyed hearing this version of the song.
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Although I’ve only been to S.F. once, and missed out on the fog, I know what you mean vicariously through the images of others. I like your lyrics. 🙂
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Yay, lots of fog! We don’t seem to get as much fog as we used to here. I think it is because of all the building and roads. sigh. The first photo intrigues me because it renders the tree so delicate looking.
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Here’s a nice version of the song, Melissa.
I’ve been enjoying the effect fog has on the fines twigs and branches of these trees.
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Thanks, Steve. It is a nice one.
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I love both these black and white shots. The tree is beautiful, the branches are of a design humans can only aspire to, but never achieve. We have much to learn from nature! And the one you took of Quabbin Valley and the mountain is amazing. Like it’s all just sitting in a cloud.
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Thanks so much, I.K. Sometimes when what you want isn’t there it pays to go elsewhere and then return (waiting isn’t a bad strategy either). Things can change so much as you noted in another comment. That is why I visit the same places so often.
Nature is indeed the ultimate teacher. Often imitated but never outdone.
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The fact that you keep coming up with good fog pictures proves that there’s not too much fog in your head.
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A rolling fog thickens and thins as does my lucidity, Steve.
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