New drain, old water

I do not know where the water that disappears into this drain will end

up. I suppose it will empty into the same river that the water

originally flowing down this area found its way into. The spring from

which the water comes to this ditch & drain is about 300 metres behind

me here. Seventy or eighty years ago my grandfather dug it out as a

back-up well for his house which was about 300 metres ahead of me

here. The water flowed down through a thick forest where my family got

wood, berries and mushrooms for years. The well however was lost for

several decades after my grandfather died in the late 1950s. After

searching for it for a couple of years, I found it again about twenty

years ago and dug it out again. It has produced beautifully clear

water ever since.



But we haven't owned the land for about a decade now and, over the

past year, the forest my grandfather lived in was bulldozed and turned

into roads and lots for new houses to be built in the next year.

Today I went looking for the the old spring well and found it

surprisingly easily. And I followed the running water down to here.

I'm tempted to put a sign by the spring naming it for my grandfather.



Kodak ColorPlus 200 film in the Rollei Prego 125 which seems to

overexpose somewhat, along with vignetting quite substantially. I

think I used the wide angle (38 mm) end of the zoom here, so that

vignetting is a bit of a surprise. A good surprise.