Blog Action Day: Water

Today is Blog Action Day, (thanks to my pooky bear for the reminder), and the topic is "Water".  So, in pictures water has helped me be grateful:

For pets:

For running in the rain and snow:

Winter 2010 after a run around Lake Nokomis

2008 Lung Run

2010 Flying Pig Half Marathon in the rain and across multiple bodies of water.

For the Beach (plus there was that time I lived on the ocean for four months):

For nature:

Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2010

Pike Island

For racing (along side rivers and lakes):

Ragnar Relay, August 2009 along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis (and with the special Nalgene water bottle)

Amsterdam, October 2009: Site of my first marathon.  I spent quality time running down one side of the Amstel River and back up the other. Bah.

Ragnar 2010 - Starting in Winona and ending in Minneapolis along the banks of the Mississippi River

Twin Cities Marathon 2010 which toured four lakes, Minnehaha Creek and the Mississippi River (no wonder it took so long)

For friends and family:

Mississippi River Cruise, summer 2010

Sara's first trip to the mid-west, summer 2009. Lock and Damn on the Mississippi River and Lake Nokomis (how is that my only picture of Lake Nokomis?

Mom on the bridge over the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers to Pike Island.

For the Twin Cities:

View from Fort Snelling

Spoonbridge at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Como Conservatory

For Africa - where clean drinking water is quite the commodity:

For New Year's Day when they cut through the ice on Lake Minnetonka so we can jump in an ice-cold lake:

On It and In It 2009 - our eyelashes were still frozen when they snapped this picture

On It and In It 2010 - wearing glasses because contact lenses freeze

For moments that speak for themselves: