It’s fun being new enough to an area that you can afford yourself the guilty pleasure of exploring your own city, and yet your updated car tag entitles you to complain about all those damn tourists. Not that were are really the touristy types…
Learning the area constitutes more than locating fresh vegetables, finding suitable mexican food, and adopting a new watering hole. Following hiking paths, finding river access, and exploring the less than obvious experiences that go unadvertised on towering billboards.
This week brought seven inches of rain in two days. Nature reminds me how inconsequential I am. It’s hard to believe the following photos were snapped at the same creek. From swimming hole to white water rapids. It’s a radical change of momentum for a single canvas. Who knew Mother Nature was a manic depressive?
August 28th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
7 inches in 2 days - I think mother nature is entitled to her tiff.
there’s something a little sad about a creek that water isn’t moving through where it is obvious it once did. I think I like the rapids version better.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Wow. That’s amazing. I have to say I prefer higher creeks too. I have an unreasonable phobia of drought.
August 28th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Ha! She is totally a manic depressive. That is why we love her so much, her ever changing moods.
August 28th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
What a pretty place. I think Mother Nature went off hers meds.
August 29th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Bob, it’s been so dry this summer, I’m glad she had her temper tantrum. The rapids are much better the quiet pools. The kayakers we saw were in good spirits.
Nancy, I’m with about the drought. Been there, done that had the dead lawn to prove it.
crazymumma, she’s made the world an exciting place. I’ve lived in close proximity to floods, hurricanes, and tornados. She leaves me in awe each time she pulls one of her stunts.
meno, it’s an interesting area, unfortunately access isn’t supervised, and litter and vandalism are problems.
August 29th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Wow - both are beautiful. Especially that first photo. We all have our stormy times and our peaceful, contemplative modes, right?
August 29th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Living in parched Southern California makes me yearn for those seven inches of rain…or any rain for that matter. All of our creek beds are currently dry creek beds. sigh
August 29th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
finally a piece of earth that understands my mind! Ha.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
qt, the first photo almost makes me want to go skinny dipping, except for remembering all the sunbathers at the creek that day…Yes, we all have the complete range of emotions, such is being human.
Lynn, the seven inches were courtesy of Tropical Storm Fay. It’s been a dry summer for us, but it sounds as if our drought hardly compared to southern CA.
Maggie, she understands, but her empathy skills are still suspect.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:44 pm
that first picture makes me want to swim.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:10 am
What awesome pictures!
Cxx
September 4th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
jen, there’s nothing like clear aqua water.
Claire, thanks, but they don’t hold a candle to the actual place.