This week’s theme pick by Tom was difficult to wrap my head ’round, pleasantly. I have lots of bottled up whining about water, the stuff falling from the sky saturating and sitting on top of my land and the stuff coming from the faucets for the last year.
You know all about the stuff from the sky right? It would be enough for me to say, “Yes, the Trans-continental ditch is working but there is still water sitting on the empty ends of my potato beds,” you would understand.
But the stuff from the faucet? Let’s just say that my hair and pillow cases are turning an interesting shade of orange and I don’t do any beauty treatments to it. My glassware is also an interesting orange tint, sorta like depression glass but not the right color. This is a new one for us. For twenty-five years of living here we had the best water ever tasted. Now? Uck! If you drink a glass you could find your self clanking as you walk.
So you can well imagine the theme water didn’t get an immediate jump for joy from me. But I swallowed my irritations (easy to do when I know that I can unload on you Dear Reader) and tried to look at water another way.
The garden is where I’ve been mostly lately, so garden water it is, strawberry leaves with the morning dew still on them. 
our water tastes great but definitely turns things orange after time. in fact if we had to overhead water our garden, it would turn all the leaves orange (been there done that), so we use drip tape. i like complaining about rain too!! our 10 day forecast has 9 days of rain. we had 1.5 inches last night. nothing going into the ground anytime soon.
Your Strawberry plants look a lot bigger than ours. Ours still only have a few leaves, must be the water!
Surprisingly enough, we hardly had any rain at all in the UK during April. Apparently it’s been the driest spring for 100 years.
I was beginning to think maybe we should all just give in and grow rice and lily pads around here. Seriously. All of my favorite things have to be grown it a hot climate. At least all of the stuff we use and eat regularly that I wish I didn’t have to buy at a store. Ahhhh, well , that’s just how it goes when you live in a rainforest I guess! Now, to go back out in the sun that showed up today!
what a lovely photograph! and we need water so badly! it is very dry here, there will soon be fires if we don’t get any. want to send us some?
smiles, bee
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Lanny: We had record amounts of rain this April and the temp was 38F this morning. I understand where your problems with water comes from. I enjoy that your strawberries are doing so well. That is a really cool shot.
Hi Lanny, Beautiful water droplets on your Strawberry leaves. It is 48 this morning..so it probably won’t snow today.
You still have water standing..if it warms up and the sun shines perhaps it will evaporate! It seems we only get one sunny day and then four dreary.
Orange hair..my goodness I had to pay for that at the hairdresser. Rust or Iron..both hard to deal with..your water table must have changed.
Frequent Infrequency..I understand that you are busy..Take care of you Lanny!:)
Really like this drip drop on leaves Lanny. Worthy of being a winner. winner.