Sky Watch Friday

This is from the other day--our first little drive after the floods and before another rain. I could not believe the cloud formations. Too beautiful for words.
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Bridgeton covered bridge one more time

I know I have posted more than enough photos of this bridge, but just had to show what I could do by using the photo software and all I did was use the fill flash. The top is the before photo and the bottom one is after fill flash. In one sense, it don't look real, but that can be good or bad depending on the mood I am in. I really like it most of the time, though I think it has more the look of an old time post card than a real photograph. Be sure and click to enlarge--it is amazing to me what that does for some photos. Some I look at and can tell that I really like even before, but when it is opened up it is just amazing.

Flooding....

Click to enlarge for better viewing.I really had plans to post some other photos, but we went for another drive today...on the way out of town we went down by the Wabash River. I wanted to take a photo of the railroad over the river that was in the photos on my blog on April24 of this year.
This is showing some more of the farmer's fields under water...
And if you click on the photo below, you will see a 'family' of bats up in the very top of the roof...I happened to notice the bat guano on the floor of the covered bridge and looked up and there they were. This is the best I could do, but it isn't too bad of an effort. I do not know what a group of bats is called and I actually wondered if this was a family. I think there are seven of them...

The photo above is the covered bridge at Bridgeton and down below is the old mill at Mansfield. I have seen these two places in all kind of weather after lots of floods, but I have never seen the water this muddy! We had more rain last night, but I think about an inch was all we got.