Photographs taken with a bridge camera journaling nature and everyday life in Central Massachusetts and beyond.
Category: Water
Lilies and water bubbles form layers of frozen abstract patterns at Mass Audubon Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary. These photos were taken during a recent blue hour.
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Photographers love the “blue hour”, and I was lucky to capture this phenomenon on Solstice Evening. The blue hour is the period just before or just after the sunset. During this time, the landscape, including frozen ponds like this one, is bathed in deep blue light. In northern climates this phenomena often occurs in the colder months.
Moore State Park, Paxton, Massachusetts
The Fire Pond at the site of the former Heifer International Farm glistens after yet another rain shower.
The Winsor Dam and the Goodnough Dike impound the waters of the Swift and Ware Rivers, forming the Quabbin Reservoir, the largest water body in Massachusetts. The dam is one of the largest in New England.
Happy Solstice Day!
Rutland State Park, Rutland MA
“Quinnetuket” is the Native American word for Connecticut, and means “beside the long river”. The Connecticut River is the longest river in New England, flowing southward for 406 miles through four states. As it runs through Northfield, Massachusetts, the Riverview Picnic Area provides a wonderfully scenic place for a picnic in any season.
Quabbin Reservoir is one of the largest unfiltered water supplies in the United States. The 412 billion gallon reservoir covers 39 square miles with 181 miles of shoreline, providing 3 million people with drinking water. And yet, a visit to the reservoir offers so much more than water!
Wachusett Reservoir Watershed Tributary Headwaters Zone, Mason Farm, Holden, MA
A “cool” surprise awaited me on a recent return trip to the Mass Rail Trail at Charnock Tunnel.
The recently painted mural inside the railroad tunnel is in stark contrast to the ice just feet away.
The Quabbin Reservoir takes its name from the Algonquin word meaning “many waters”.
The onset of Spring is visible in abstract patterns on and below the surface of our local ponds, now free of ice.
Reflections on the melting ice combine with objects floating in the water layer to create a multi-layered natural art work.
The cool blue of cascading water was complemented by orange-shaded vegetation on a late afternoon visit to the waterfall at Moore State Park in Paxton, MA.
The adaptable Canada Geese are back on the pond, and don’t seem to mind that it is still partly frozen. After a bit of slip-sliding away on the ice, what could be better than a quick “polar dip”?
Wildlife Pond, Princeton, Massachusetts
“Quabbin Reservoir is one of the largest man-made public water supplies in the United States. Created in the 1930s by the construction of two huge earthen dams, the reservoir is fed by the three branches of the Swift River, and seasonally by the Ware River. Quabbin’s water covers 39 square miles, is 18 miles long and has 181 miles of shoreline. When full, Quabbin holds 412 billion gallons of water.
The New Salem and Enfield lookouts offer magnificent views of the reservoir. In order to flood the vast area of the Swift River Valley in the 1930s, the entire population of four towns had to be relocated. Hundreds of homes, businesses, a state highway, a railroad line, and 34 cemeteries were also moved or dismantled. Over 6,000 graves were relocated from the Valley to Quabbin Park Cemetery.”
