I knew immediately which picture I wanted to share for this week’s Midweek Madness Challenge when I saw Cee’s challenge photo (see it here)! I’m mesmerized by the reflection in the surface ripples of water – both in Cee’s photo and mine (above).
This next photo is of the same area – just further away and from a different angle.
The last three photos were taken in quick succession a little earlier on the same day in the same place – November 4, 2022 at Riverfront Park, Billings, Montana. I was just starting my walk when a flock of geese flew overhead, circled and landed on the water.
Another LQQK 
Teressa, what beautiful reflections you have to delight us with this week 😀
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Thank-you! Thanks, more, for your photos and the challenge. Always a delight.
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Love the photos of water! Thank you.
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Beautiful images! Thanks for sharing!
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Glad to share!
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I wish I really believed that ripples caused by disturbance were really more beautiful than calm water.
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Now you’ve made me wonder!
Calm seems to equate with peaceful or gentle or maybe just rest. Definitely beautiful.
Ripples make me think of movement or change or maybe just a sign of life. The geese landing, an otter swimming, and a slight breeze all caused ripples on the water that day. Also beautiful.
Yet I have to agree that a disturbance like the Yellowstone River flooding last June was not beautiful – the grassy area in the foreground of the middle picture was underwater. While it was good for the Yellowstone basin ecosystem – for example, providing better habitat for native fish – the chaos it caused for the human population continues.
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That is exactly what I was thinking, as well as considering that the older I get the more I like calm and yet I know some murky, clogged ponds that smell from miles away … both the ones in the landscape and the humans for whom still and rippled water is a metaphor/parable.
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Oooo…hadn’t considered the clogged (decaying?) smelly ones. 🙂
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Teressa your reflections are beautiful. Thank you for visiting and following my blog. I hope we have more interaction via blogs.
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