MonoMonday #31 - Shadows ........

............. and the original.

For the MonoMonday Challenge hosted this week by Skeena - thanks for this.

All my plans of taking a photo of Shadow, with his shadow, in the garden, in the sunshine this morning went phhutttt as it's pouring with rain ..... sooooo .... after a lot of faffing about you get my candle lamp ....

This was nowhere as easy as I expected - just couldn't get it right at all - was at it for at least two hours ..... and I'm still not totally happy with it but it's what I've got and it's what you get.

More shadowy ...


Thank you for all the comments and stars on my zoomy trees yesterday - very much appreciated.

~ Anni ~


Shadow Joke for the Day:

A man is strolling past a hospital and suddenly remembers an important meeting.
Unfortunately, his watch has stopped, and he cannot tell if he is late or not.
Then he notices a patient similarly strolling about within the hospital fence.
Calling out to the patient, the man says,
"Pardon me, sir, but do you have the time?"

The patient calls back, "One moment!" and throws himself upon the ground, pulling out a short stick as he does.
He pushes the stick into the ground and, pulling out a carpenter's level, assures himself that the stick is vertical.
With a compass the patient locates north and, with a steel ruler, measures the precise length of the shadow cast by the stick.

Withdrawing a slide rule from his pocket the patient calculates rapidly then swiftly packs up all his tools and turns back to the pedestrian saying,
"It is now precisely 3:29 pm, provided today is October 6th, which I believe it is."

The man can't help but be impressed by this demonstration, and sets his watch accordingly.

Before he leaves, he says to the patient, "That was really quite remarkable, but tell me, what do you do on a cloudy day, or at night, when the stick casts no shadow?"

The patient holds up his wrist and says, "I suppose I'd just look at my watch."


:-)))