We were inspired by Land Artist Andy Goldsworthy after viewing his film Rivers and Tides to create Rain Shadows! It is a fabulous Artist documentary if you enjoy that sort of thing. The artist creates one of these rain shadows during the documentary! Cassie actually enjoyed this film and has been inspired to create other land art too! Basically to create a Rain Shadow you need to lay down on the pavement just before it starts to rain and lay still until it looks like the rain has covered the pavement around you. Then when you get up you should see your Rain Shadow. Cassie and I were lucky enough to be around right when it began to rain and tried this. I laid on my back and C was on her side. it was very refreshing and freeing laying down and letting the rain fall on you, but I'm not sure it was for C! Here are our Rain Shadows!
We tried creating some Rain Shadows by spraying the hose over each other too! It was more difficult to get the water to come down without going under our bodies! You would probably need to spray the water up higher so it would fall more like rain. Also with such HOT pavement it made it difficult to lay down! BE CAREFUL!
You could also try different objects to see what rain shadows that they create.
Also, you could observe natural occurring rain shadows left from parked cars or trees that the rain cannot rain through because it is a light rain!
Looking at our Rain Shadows!
We tried creating some Rain Shadows by spraying the hose over each other too! It was more difficult to get the water to come down without going under our bodies! You would probably need to spray the water up higher so it would fall more like rain. Also with such HOT pavement it made it difficult to lay down! BE CAREFUL!
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OTHER IDEAS FOR RAIN SHADOWS:
Also, you could observe natural occurring rain shadows left from parked cars or trees that the rain cannot rain through because it is a light rain!
