Reflections

As I'm blogging tonight I'm watching a bright gibbous moon coming up over the Eastern shore of the Bay. Another thing I've found fascinating since moving here is how brightly light is reflected off the water. When I was a kid, one of my favorite nighttime activitis was to walk down to Cherokee Lake and watch the water at night. About a mile across the water from where I lived there was a boat dock which had a flashing red and green light mounted on the roof. I'd throw out a line hoping for catfish and watch the colorful reflections in the dark water. Since there's so much more open water here, I guess it only makes sense that the reflections would be greater. Still, I'm frequently surprised to glance out and see how bright the water looks. We're far enough away from Baltimore and Washington DC so that we can get good views of the stars as well. I'm looking forward to warmer weather when we can go out and sit on the dock and watch for meteors. I've mentioned earlier that, by water, we're only about a mile or so upstream from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. When it was built in 1952, the bridge was the third longest in the world. I really like this photo taken soon after the bridge opened by Marion E. Warren. -Shawn