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You’re All Wet—CFFC

Dan Antion
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Not that I’m ever here at the early end of this challenge, but I’m not normally this late. I like to schedule these posts for just after midnight. Oops.

This week our topic is Things that are Wet. Please feel free to use either new or archived photos for this challenge.

Use your imagination and see what you can come up with. Be creative and have fun with this challenge.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

“I know you want to water stuff, but this grass is wet and I’m eating it for breakfast. Can you give me a few?”
Wet foggy day yields some interesting photo opportunities
Photographer
I was pretty happy with the angle I had on this bird. Faith was going for a different view. Wet sandals, wet pants, I guess it’s the price you pay for better photos.
Wet Rose of Sharon
I like the way the light reflects off the wet surface
I think these are (some kind of) Tern
Wet rose of Sharon.
This is just about the best SoCS prompt ever. Seriously, “This and That” – Oh my goodness. Not a week goes by that my editor doesn't shove a ‘that’ into my blog post. I keep telling her that it sounds too formal, but she’s only willing to back off to a degree. I’m getting ahead of myself, this this and that thing is from Linda G. Hill: Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “this and that.” Talk about this, talk about that, talk about this and that, but here’s the catch: make either “this” or “that” the first word of your post. Bonus points if you can end with “this” or “that.” Enjoy! The thing is, though, I was planning to write about coupons after reading a post by Cordelia’s Mom. CM had a post about the car wash. No, not the Car Wash Song, not even the Steadily Depressin' low-down mind-messin' Working at the Car Wash Blues. Nope, just about how she had a little difficulty figuring out how the car wash express lane deal worked. I commented on CM’s post: "I would buy the unlimited and then forget to go" and that's true. I once bought my wife a 10-pack of car wash coupons from the local car wash. I told her that whenever she wanted her car washed, all she had to do was give me a coupon and off I'd go. You might be wondering why my wife couldn't just take the car through herself. She used to. Until that day. That day in the 80s when she and our daughter (who was still in a car seat) took her car through the car wash, only to emerge with two flat tires. Not just flat tires, shredded, as in: “they-ain't-never-gonna-hold-air-again-lady” tires. When you have a flat tire, you have options. You can put the spare on. Of course, if you’re a mom with a kid in a car seat, that’s really not much of an option. When you have two flat tires, you only have bad options. When you have two flat tires at the end of the car wash line and there are people behind you mid-wash, you really don’t have any options. You are involved in what people in the car wash industry refer to as a, well, it begins with ‘cluster’, but they wouldn’t use that term around a mom and her baby. Anyway, you need a tow truck. We got two new tires from the car wash folks, but my wife has never gone back. I always think about that day when I take her car through. I wonder if my doing a good deed will outweigh the curse hanging over her car. That might be why she never asked me to use those coupons. I'm pretty sure most of them expired. In fact, I'm pretty sure I paid for car washes, knowing that I had a pack of coupons sitting at home. Now you're thinking: "what a dope. Why didn't he just put the coupons in the glove compartment?" You might be thinking glove box, but I don't like that word. It's not a box, it's a compartment. Actually, in my Triumph Spitfire, it was a shelf. Anyway, putting the coupons in there wouldn't have helped. I still would have forgotten to use them. I’ve taken coupons for free deserts to restaurants and forgotten to use them. I've taken $1 off a big bag of chips coupons to the grocery store and brought the coupon and the chips home. I've carried free drink coupons on both legs of a Southwest Airlines flight - free drinks! – only to watch them expire in my wallet a few weeks later. I don't do coupons well. I do the car wash well though. I buy less and tip more. Seriously. I buy the $11 "Silver" wash (the cheapest one that includes undercar spray), I give the guy $15 and refuse the change. He announces "Silver - Four!" and the guys in the prep area scrub the beejeebies off my car. The car wash at that point is just to rinse off the soap. I've seen people ahead of me ask for the $16 "Gold" wash, hand the guy a $20 and take the four singles back. "Gold - Zero!" is announced and the car rolls into the wash lane with barely a brush stroke from the bucket boys. They toss some soapy water on the windshield, but their heart isn't in it. You can tell. After the great car wash tire slashing event, my wife had a short series of two-flat-tire incidents. She ran over some screws in the road right outside of our driveway, poof – poof - two tires gone. She also backed over some junk in the church parking lot – yeah, it's not like she's some off-road warrior, the church parking lot! Poof – poof. The worst flat tire she ever had was when a steel I-beam fell off a truck on the other side of the highway. The thing bounced up and targeted her car like the Enterprise locking phasers on a Romulan Bird of Prey. She sped-up but the I-Beam took out her port nacelle driver's side rear tire. The state police wrote that up as a "vehicle vs. object" accident. Then the cop looked at me and said: "Objects always win." When we bought her current car, we turned down every optional thing you could buy. Clear-coat? No. Rustproofing? No. Upholstery protection? No. Make your payment if you’re disabled? No. Wheel and Tire damage? - Oh yeah, sign us up for some of that.
Our daughter had the opportunity to learn how to change a tire. On a rainy day no less.
Everything is wet.
Wet – that’s the forecast for the entire week.
Rainy nights leave us with wet walks

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93 responses to “You’re All Wet—CFFC”

  1. Avatar
    Anonymous

    It seems lately that Wet ‘R Us should be our theme Dan! Faith sure knows how to get the perfect photo! Bravo! The Rise of Sharon are just as beautiful when wet, and I love that shot of the terns….having a convention maybe. The last picture of Old Glory is a beauty.
    Ginger🦋

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      We certainly have been wet, Ginger. These are from the archive, but I’ve added a ton of wet subjects this year. Faith does work harder at getting the look she wants than I do.

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  2. GP Avatar
    GP

    You are surely wet, Dan. Does that make you a wet blanket?

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I think that term has been used, GP ;-)

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      1. GP Avatar
        GP

        Oh NO!!

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  3. Rivergirl Avatar
    Rivergirl

    Great bathing shot!
    But you’d better get some bunny beverages ready before they start nibbling your hose…
    😉

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      We have several small, low planter saucers with water. We’ve seen the bunnies drinking from them. We keep them clean and full.

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      1. Rivergirl Avatar
        Rivergirl

        I have a raised bath for the birds and put out a low one for critters during the hot dry months…

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  4. willowdot21 Avatar
    willowdot21

    I do love these rainy and wet photos especially the last one of Old Glory !

    After two windy but dry days this morning then rain was back! 😔 💜

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      That seems to be our pattern, Willow. Dry and windy or rain. I hope you have a good week.

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      1. willowdot21 Avatar
        willowdot21

        Cheers you too and !

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  5. Cheryl Wood Avatar
    Cheryl Wood

    And a wet but still beautiful flag☺️

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      That’s one of my favorite flag photos. Thanks.

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  6. lois Avatar
    lois

    These are all so pretty. The flag photo is wonderful–the lighting, the shadows. What a beautiful shot, Dan.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Lois.

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  7. Sharukh Bamboat Avatar
    Sharukh Bamboat

    Lovely images. I appreciate that Faith goes a little extra for that better shot. I do a lot of low-angle shots but differently. I think those birds are Royal Terns.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I know they are some type of Tern, Sharukh. If you say Royal,. I’ll go with that.

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  8. Dave Astor Avatar
    Dave Astor

    Dan, my enthusiasm at seeing your great wet photos was never dampened. :-)

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      HA! Good one, Dave – thanks.

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  9. Oddment Avatar
    Oddment

    Whatever those birds are on the beach, they seem to be focused on the one taking off over the waves (gorgeous water, by the way). I can’t tell if they’re thinking thoughts of fond farewell or good riddance. The bathing robin is a great capture, but robins never stop with the grumps — that’s some side-eye he’s giving the photographer. The flag in the fog is wonderful; I even love the power lines through the trees in this image. A good Monday beginning — thank you!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Maureen. “Master Robin” – that’s what we call him – probably was complaining about a low water level. Sometimes, he walks around the outside but won’t bath until we go clean and fill it. When we go out with the bucket, he sits in the lilacs until we’re done.

      Those Terns swoop in and back off the sand with the waves. I always liked seeing them.

      I’m glad you liked the flag. The fog added a nice atmosphere.

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  10. Liz Gauffreau Avatar
    Liz Gauffreau

    I love the one with the flag.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      hanks Liz. I’m glad.

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      1. Liz Gauffreau Avatar
        Liz Gauffreau

        You’re welcome, Dan.

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  11. circadianreflections Avatar
    circadianreflections

    The flag is lovely in that light, and all the drops are beautiful. 

    I thought the the Terns were Elegant Terns but, looking in my book you don’t have those there they’re on the west coast. Sharukh is right they’re Royal Terns we don’t have those on the west coast. Interesting I thought.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      That is interesting. I’d never hear of Elegant Terns. I wonder if there are lowly common Terns, or if they all have stately names

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      1. circadianreflections Avatar
        circadianreflections

        There are Common and Least Terns both I think you might have as they’re East Coast as well.

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        1. Dan Antion Avatar
          Dan Antion

          Thank you.

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  12. Kim Smyth Avatar
    Kim Smyth

    Poor Faith, lol!
    I want to see the shot you got all wet getting of the bird!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I had that photo, but I couldn’t find it.

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  13. Bruce@WOTC Avatar
    Bruce@WOTC

    I love the header photo, Dan. We have a mini Christmas tree we’re “raising” on our patio, and we recently put its pot on a big plastic plate to hold excess water as it travels out the pot. Several days back, a bird decided the excess water would serve it well as both a drinking fountain and bath option. So now, we look out the window on occasion and there’s a bird splashing about under the tree. It may be a robin…perhaps we’ll have to name ours. 🙂 Faith showed true dedication in getting that one shot!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      You also have to keep the plate clean and full. Once they stake their claim, the water rights are transferred from you to them. I think that’s how it works.

      Faith works hard to get the photo she wants.

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  14. House of Heart Avatar
    House of Heart

    Rainy days are beautiful from the inside looking out but these pics kind of make one want to get out there. Love the Rose of Sharon and all of the terns in the wet sand. Well done Dan.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Seeing those terns was one of the things I enjoyed about business meetings in Florida. Many of these photos were taken when we still had Maddie with us. Maddie had some serious issues, and would not go anywhere without one of us with her. So, we were out in the rain whenever she had to “go.”

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      1. House of Heart Avatar
        House of Heart

        My dog Tide was a bundle of anxieties and wouldn’t do or go anywhere without us. He also wouldn’t eat or drink when left alone , hated rain so we had to open the garage door and let him go right there in the grass . So strange. Loved the pics Dan.

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  15. robertawrites235681907 Avatar
    robertawrites235681907

    Hi Dan, these are wonderful ‘wet’ pictures. I have very few such pictures other than some ocean photographs.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      We have had lots of rainy days here, Robbie. I love walking after it rains overnight.

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      1. robertawrites235681907 Avatar
        robertawrites235681907

        I love rain at night, it’s so cozy. Our summer was dry as a bone – not my favourite kind of weather for weeks on end.

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  16. Cee Neuner Avatar
    Cee Neuner

    Dan, these are all fun and wet photos for this week. I like your header photo with the bird in a bath. Excellent post :D

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Cee. That’s “Master Robin” – he lets us know when the bath is dirty or low. He paces around. After we clean/fill, he takes his bath, and I usually have to fill it again.

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  17. Dale Avatar
    Dale

    Yeah to Faith! I never learned how to change my tire and it’s a think I find I’m lacking.

    Lovely photos, Dan.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      She drives a truck, not, Dale. I told her to make sure she keeps her AAA contract up to date.

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      1. Dale Avatar
        Dale

        Which is what I do… CaA

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  18. Teagan Riordain Geneviene Avatar
    Teagan Riordain Geneviene

    I enjoyed these, Dan. Great reflection and water-droplet shots. And birds taking a bath are always adorable. Hugs.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Teagan. The birds love the bird baths we have out there, but that robin loves that big bath. With all the rain we’ve had, I’ve had lots of opportunities to get these shots.

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  19. Mae Clair Avatar
    Mae Clair

    Wonderful photos, Dan! I especially love the beads of water clinging to the tree branches. And bravo to Faith for her determination on getting the shot she wanted! 😄

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Mae. I love seeing those water drops. I’m really glad I know the lady who owns the house where that tree is. Otherwise, I’m not sure I’d be welcome. Faith always works to get the photo she wants. I’m a little lazy when it comes to that.

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  20. Tails Around the Ranch Avatar
    Tails Around the Ranch

    Love all your wet stuff (well except for the tire changing in the rain-one of life’s ‘gifts’ of adulthood). Hoping the wet stuff will visit us soon. 🤞🏼

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks. Changing the tire was a good lesson. The wet stuff has become pretty common around here. We’re not complaining, as we’ve experienced the other extreme. I hope you get wet soon.

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  21. quiall Avatar
    quiall

    One of the few nice things about rain is the different perspective it gives us. You have captured that beautifully!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Pam. It’s always pleasant outside after it rains. Some of these were taken while being out with Maddie, in the rain (she wouldn’t go out alone).

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  22. Jennie Avatar
    Jennie

    Well done on the prompt, Dan! The wet Rose of Sharon, and the last photo with fog and light behind the tree and flag are incredible!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Jennie. I loved seeing the flag under those conditions. Every now and then I get lucky.

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      1. Jennie Avatar
        Jennie

        This was an exceptional flag photo, for sure. Something about it makes me swell and smile.

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  23. John W. Howell Avatar
    John W. Howell

    Loved your photos. I think you killed the prompt.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks John!

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      1. John W. Howell Avatar
        John W. Howell

        😁

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  24. bushboy Avatar
    bushboy

    The puddle and the Terns are my favourites Dan 😀

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Brian. I always liked seeing the Terns. I take photos of puddles all the time.

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      1. bushboy Avatar
        bushboy

        I love puddle photos as well Dan.
        I wonder if I have used puddles as a Ragtag prompt yet. I have to schedule some so I’ll check. If not a Puddle Prompt will happen soon 😁

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        1. Dan Antion Avatar
          Dan Antion

          I look forward to that.

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          1. bushboy Avatar
            bushboy

            It might be this Thursday 😉

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            1. Dan Antion Avatar
              Dan Antion

              :-)

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  25. Gwen M. Plano Avatar
    Gwen M. Plano

    You’ve some beautiful photos, Dan. I wish you could share the rain with us. It’s a rarity in our part of the world.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I wish we could share, Gwen, but I’m not going to complain about the weather.

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  26. sustainabilitea Avatar
    sustainabilitea

    Love the drop shot on the top right and the reflection that’s right above the last shot. We’d take a bit of that wet if you could get it here.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      At the moment, we have more wet than we need, but we’ve had dry years, so I’m not complaining.

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  27. Kirt D Tisdale Avatar
    Kirt D Tisdale

    Great pics Dan…love them!

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      Dan Antion

      Thanks Kirt.

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  28. Resa Avatar
    Resa

    Terrific photos. Thanks Dan!

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      Dan Antion

      My pleasure, Resa

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  29. Avatar
    Anonymous

    awesome content!!

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  30. memadtwo Avatar
    memadtwo

    You’ve made the most of it! (K l

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      Dan Antion

      Thanks Kerfe!

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  31. Linda Schaub Avatar
    Linda Schaub

    We have had an overabundance of rain every day, then two days of very blustery winds. I felt like I had gone through the car wash! The bunny asks so little – hope wet grass was good for its digestion. I saw a large bunny at the Park today and it was enjoying dandelions.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      The enjoy a number of things in the yard. We let the broadleaf “weeds” grow for them, as those are favorites.

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      1. Linda Schaub Avatar
        Linda Schaub

        The bunnies are sweet … I wouldn’t mind donating my weeds to them either.

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  32. srbottch Avatar
    srbottch

    My fav is the flag on the tree on a rainy evening

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      That’s a popular favorite – I love it.

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  33. D. Wallace Peach Avatar
    D. Wallace Peach

    A wonderful variety of “wet” photos, Dan. I enjoyed them all. I want to see the photo Faith got of the bird. It would be fun to see the different takes of the same subject by two photographers. :-)

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I have to ask her for that, Diana. I used to have it, but I can’t find it.

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      1. D. Wallace Peach Avatar
        D. Wallace Peach

        :-)

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  34. JT Twissel Avatar
    JT Twissel

    I’ve changed entirely too many tires in the rain … and the snow … definitely not my favorite activity. We’ve been promised a break from the rain! We’ll see. Love that flag in the rain shot – eerily beautiful. Def a keeper!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Jan. One tire is too many. More than one is hard to take.

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  35. dweezer19 Avatar
    dweezer19

    i love the monochrome shot most, Dan.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks – I don’t do that often enough

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      1. dweezer19 Avatar
        dweezer19

        M either and people always seem to love them

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  36. Author Jan Sikes Avatar
    Author Jan Sikes

    Great response to the prompt, Dan. Kudos to your daughter for her independence!!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Jan. She is an independent soul.

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  37. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    These photos are so lovely. The wet branch on a foggy day is beautiful.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I’m glad you like them.

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  38. Nicole Smith Avatar
    Nicole Smith

    Dan I am not a super-commenter, but I do enjoy your pictures and the captions.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thank you. I enjoy your poetry, too.

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