Sunday, January 17, 2010

THE RAINS ARE FINALLY HERE

By Debbie Bulloch



The much predicted rains have finally arrived. It has been raining hard since about noon (Sunday). According to the weather forecast we can expect more than a week of rain (is this Southern California or Seattle?).

In anticipation of all the rain coming our way I snuck out a bike ride along the beach before the heavy rains began. The big waves, however, arrived on schedule, ahead of the rain.

In this series of ten photographs you can see a wave roll in, rise above the sea wall and then soak the road. Incidentally, that is the very same road that I ride my bike on when I go to the beach.

Today I got a good soaking from the waves and then from the rain. By the end of the ride I was very wet but also very happy.

It was a real fun ride!!!

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(Except as otherwise credited, all photographs © 2009 - 2010 by DB. All rights fully reserved.)

Not quite sure that this song goes well with the pictures above, but I really like Elisa's vocals, so here it goes.

ELISA - The Waves

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi hi deb

I am happy that you have been very happy to ride under the rain and the waves ! maybe you were right ! maybe bikes are able to float , especially yours (lol) !
your pics are wonderful, to see the waves like that ! it is like a "bande dessinée" you have the different sequences and if you look at them very fast that makes a story ! you can just put music and that is a story and if you put some speech you can make a movie ! lol

you know i rode on sunday and that was very nice ! i didn't ride since 5 weeks and that was long ! i feel better now ! hehehe so bike is very good for your legs and also for the mental ! see you later
arc

Debbie Bulloch said...

I've added a song, to go with the pictures. Do they work well together - the pictures and the song?