I'm pretty sure I would never have taken this photo if I wasn't trying to find a photo for the word "Power" in the June Word Challenge.
When we bought our house 20 years ago, there were at least 8 to 10 empty lots on our street. A building boom about 12 years ago scooped almost all of them up. This is the last one left and they started digging the foundation this week.
I liked the layers of colors of the dirt and the huge glacial boulders unearthed during the digging. A huge glaciers moved across this land over 20,000 years ago, carving out hundreds of kettle ponds and leaving giant boulders behind. My rose photo a few days ago was taken against the backdrop of one of three in my front yard.
Well, thank you for the education! This is a very well-composed photo! I grew up in a little unincorporated village called "Boulder Hill", and it was full of boulders. Now I feel a need to go look up the history even though I am supposed to be working on end-of-the-year reports....
Love this, Laurie! I'm going to show this to my science class today - we do a whole unit on changes in the earth's surface, and what remains after glaciers have moved over an area - these huge boulders will be perfect!
that land would take a lot of clearing- what a job! Very different from the sandy soil here! Love that forest in the background, hope that never gets carved up
This is a great shot for power, Laurie. I haven't found something for that one yet. This challenge is quite interesting and is making me search around my world every day for what will work. It's fun, yes? Now if I could just figure out how to include a few on the shared contest page.....
June 9th, 2012
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