While this looks a great deal like the photo taken exactly a week ago, yesterday's heavy rainfall brought measurable water to the river bed for the first time in years! Many years back, when we had far-too much rain one winter, the water was breaking under the bridges and everyone was worried about flooding! It's the cycle we live with "here in Paradise".
@777margo It is, Margo, if you can get an unobstructed view like we found here! This is the heart of densely populated Orange County, California where, in most places, we'd only catch a glimpse of those beautiful mountains!
Awesome mountains beautiful captured. Great capture of the river too. Only the power lines I don`t like. Glad we have them not to much and when I retouch them as much as possible.
(The new approche : we give the water the controled space it needed also by floodings .)
@cruiser Your question, I think, pairs nicely with what Ferry @pyrrhula wrote... The Netherlands certainly know about flood control! Up river from here (30-40 miles, perhaps) is a dam, and the water release is controlled gradually (hopefully!) Like the dykes around Ferry in Holland, the top of this flood control channel is higher than the surrounding neighbourhoods, and we live in a flood plain. 40+ years ago when we moved here, the channel was just dirt, and it slowed the water flow which backed up, making it very deep. Since paving it about 20 years ago, the water runs faster to the ocean, 6 miles from here. And Ferry, this is the only place around us that those power lines are the *least obtrusive*! Driving down any street, there are so many, block after clock, you just can't get an unobstructed view of the mountains...such a pity!
@andifree Does your sister still live out here? I'm *Loving* these rainy days! Yesterday was sunny and today it's pouring again! (That's your SOCAL weather report ; )
@777margo@cruiser@seattlite@pamknowler@annied@joansmor@salza@ethelperry@elkereturns@brillomick@frankhymus@gilbertwood@bkbinthecity Thank you all for commenting again, given I'd posted something so similar a week ago! It's pouring heavily all day now on the 22rd, so when it clears, we may go for another photo! Having gone so long without a rainy winter, we're rather fascinated watching the water level rise! And after so much conservation, it's a pity to watch it flow out to the ocean!!! However, the yards are beautifully green again!
A quite different shot in my book Louise. The water in the river gives a whole different feeling and balance to the image. I like it. Sounds like you live in the same cycle we do!
So good to see rain coming in and that it is manageable. What a relief for you all!! And this is a beautiful capture of the mountains that make your part of the world so special.
(The new approche : we give the water the controled space it needed also by floodings .)