Thursday, June 30, 2011

You Capture - Water

Beth's You Capture subject this week is water and that really worked out for me on several levels.

First we went to a birthday party near Coldwater, Michigan where the kids and some of the adults spent a fair amount of time floating and playing in the water.

Then there was all kinds of activity going on in our koi pond this week. There's no accurate way to predict when it will happen, but Monday morning a spawning finally occurred. If you've never seen a koi spawning, you're really missing out because it's spectacular. The fish fly around the pond bumping and jumping and turning the water into a varitable cauldron of water, plants, and fish. You can hear the splashing in the house with the doors and windows closed. You'd probably be hard-pressed to pick the fish out of this picture but, trust me, they're in there.

By late yesterday evening, peace was restored and once again the pond was calm and quiet.

During the day, I wasn't the only one watching the show.

And now the plants with fertilized eggs firmly attached to their roots, float quietly in the small annex pond where no fish can feast on them. (Koi seem to consider their fertilized eggs the ultimate delicacy.)

For more water pictures, visit Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry.





3 comments:

  1. That third shot is awesome. Love them all, but that one is perfection.

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  2. TELL ME YOU WENT AND HARVESTED THOSE EGGS!!! *heart attack*

    I love LOVE the koi spawning shot...watching koi spawn is such a treat.

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  3. Love all of the water pictures especially the pics of everyone in the lake, it brings back memories of the most awesome day that everyone came out to visit, it was the BEST!

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