A Dinosaur View

The processes of nature we observe today are the same which have worked on the landscape for millions of years.  Nineteenth-century geologists came to this conclusion, one of the fundamentals of modern earth science.  In watching the river filled with sediment after last night's thunderstorms, we see the same dynamic viewed by an archaeopteryx or a pterodactyl.

Before the Storm

The evening light and early summer heat drew folks to the bridge.  A trio of visitors asked me to take their picture on the bridge.  I asked where they were from, "Oh, everywhere!" was the reply.

A thunder storm moves through the watershed tonight.

Clarity

Near high noon, the stream 

runs with more transparency 

than yesterday's mud.

Muddy Waters

After the deluge

the river carries wet earth,

someday to rise up,

Before the Storm and Later

The parent geese were back today with their two goslings.  In the late afternoon, a thunderstorm blew through. After it was over, I watched from the bridge as storm debris clouded the water.  A Massachusetts man in town for a construction project stood right at my usual vantage point, and spoke of the magic of the scene.  One of the goslings paddled around in the quiet water by the left bank.

The Middle Bridge

An owner of  land on the left bank graciously gave me permission to go down to the river's edge. Looking back, I took a picture of the Middle Bridge, my vantage point for the past months.

Circles and Circles

A light rain fell on the river this evening, creating the interweaving circus of rings that rain brings when each drop meets quiet water, a seeming infinity of expanding and vanishing circles, Venn diagrams out of control.