Pond

May 22, 2007

People are skillful. They constructed the scenery of waterfall of mountain in midst of Cal Poly. The sound of waterfall is melodious. How the water helps light reflect from water and alights things around – water grass, dark gray rock, even people who are sitting around the water now – is wonderful. In front of me, long leaves of water grass has band of light strips continuously moving up, which is visible by shadow strips alternating with them. About ten feet away from me, on the rough surface of the rock, there are light reflections of water ridge ring, radiating continuously from the center.
It seems like movements of light and shadow stripes on water grass is resulting from these water ridge rings, which comes from the ripples on the surface of water. Only difference is ripples on the rock is caused by waterfall falling into the pond, and ripples that’s happening on the water grass is caused by tiny fishes, creating the ripples when ever they dash in the water very fast and suddenly coming to a stop.