Header Challenge - Underground

The topic this week was mine. What's underground plays an important role in our daily lives. In addition to minerals, coal and oil that are necessary for our modern society, there are the services that we  take for granted - that is until there is a problem underground. Underground in our neighborhood are water, power, sewer, phone, TV, and Internet. On February 15 some of those services were interrupted when the ground under the road sank. The water main sprung a leak and the sewer was broken by the collapsing road. Electricity was turned off while the workers investigated the problem. Water main repairs were quickly completed and the sewer line was pumped overland while the hole was investigated, stabilized, and repairs made. See more images of the sinkhole saga.

Underground there is also beauty, created by water interacting with the soil and rocks. Luray Caverns in the Virginia mountains is one such place. More images of the caverns here. 

Our World - Missing one

 

We lost one of our two cats last week. Buster stopped eating and was having trouble breathing, so I took him to the Vet for a checkup. Exam and X-rays showed a collapsed lung and a tumor. The prognosis was not good for an older cat with those problems, so he was euthanized. Here are some images from the past.. 

  Always curious

 Why are you outside and I'm stuck inside?

 Watching the world go by

Checking out the new cabinet

Liked a pillow, could sleep anywhere

Sky Watch - Mostly blue

Swirls

 

Crossing contrails

 

Carolina moon

 

Header Challenge - Sun

Christine chose the sun as the header challenge topic for this week. Here are my views of the sun as it has crossed our sky in recent weeks.

Hiding behind clouds

Spot lighting the iris

Warming Zoey

Without the sun, we would have a diet of mushrooms and other things that grow in the dark.

The sun filters through the pines in Carolina, lighting some branches and missing others (below are enlarged slices of the above image).

And then drops beyond the horizon leaving a beautiful afterglow!

Our World - Blooming

Clematis bud

 Clematis bloom

 Rose

Hydrangea bud

Header Challenge - Bottles

My header was our wine "cellar" - not a large selection, but we don't drink much alcohol. The alcohol beverage industry seems to be sticking with glass bottles.

We do not get a lot of stuff in glass bottles any more. Milk bottles have been replaced by plastic or cardboard "cartons". The only glass bottle above is one Marianne bought.

 

Asian products still use glass.

 

Medicine seldom comes in glass bottles now; this paprika is in glass, but a lot of spices are now in plastic. The two old glass bottles were probably medicines. The name on the old bottle is "Chamberlain's".

 

Our World - More color