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This was my back yard yesterday afternoon. It got worse later (after dark when I couldn’t take any more pictures). The ivy bed and all of the grass shown in the photo was totally submerged by 10 PM, as were the bottom few inches of the shed’s front door.

I was lucky — no flooding inside the house. Some of my neighbors were not so lucky. At least one had their basement flood all the way to the ceiling, and spent most of today running a pump to drain it. Several houses have big dumpsters out front today, full of furniture and so forth.

Look at the area to the left of the shed, and you’ll see Kellogg Creek, which is one of the main routes of water drainage around here. It is normally not visible from this angle, as it runs in a bed several feet deep. But it flooded its banks, and that’s where all of this water came from.

Submitted for Lens Day challenge “Shallow.”

Submitted for Lens Day challenge “Furry.”

The Parliament building in Vienna, Austria.

Submitted for Lens Day challenge “Government.”

While in Poland, we visited the salt mine at Wieliczka. Miners have been working here for hundreds of years, starting in the late 13th century.

Not all of the salt in a mine is of commercial value. Some is too intermixed with other minerals and rock to be harvested. At Wieliczka, the miners have a tradition of creating elaborate sculptures out of this unusable salt. One chamber we visited was stunning — an entire chapel carved out of salt, complete with pews. This picture shows one wall of the chapel.

Submitted for Lens Day challenge “Crystalline.”

Vienna, Austria. I believe this building is the home of their national Parliament.

My wife has corrected me — it is actually an opera house.

Submitted for Lens Day challenge “Curves.”