With summer temps in Erie County, Pennsylvania at record levels, what better way to cool off than with some time on the water? Like this Common Water Strider (Aquarius remigis) on Elk Creek on 5 July 2025:
Another way to cool off – lovely digital photographs of rippling water currents over green-coloured sedimentary creekbed rock:
(Hurrah for surface tension! Hurrah for intermolecular forces! Hurrah for physics! Hurrah for science! Hurrah for Wikipedia!)
[Editor’s note: All in all, a very cool post!]
Wow, we are really cooled down! Here, where it never rains, (rarely), it’s great to see WATER! And to be able to stride on it! Wow!
Not the best pictures due to ‘wrong lens’ + shade, but still fun to see the water bugs. And Elk Creek is lovely generally.