Whether its tree foliage or water levels, seasonal changes don’t unfold overnight.
Or do they?
Three weeks ago I stopped at a scenic spot on my commute home, and to my shock, saw it riddled with cavernous cracks. (I didn’t dare walk out – on fear of falling into a chasm without rappelling equipment!)
I shook my head in amazement, and also at my luck (accompanied by a sigh of relief):
Days later an early summer deluge pooled water back across the barren flat.
Other times I’m too patient with photo points … or do I mean lazy.
My glances out the window at 50 mph all spring long seemed to confirm the obvious: “it looks just like it did the day before, and the day before that (dry) … so why stop?
I did stop twice: once in mid March and again in mid May. The two months inbetween saw the thin (and still damp) cracks open into dry gorges of discontent.
In the first case, I knew what I had when I snapped the camera, but in the second, it wasn’t upon reviewing the photos – months later – that I saw the difference.
In all cases I was glad I stopped.
7 comments:
Bob, I enjoy seeing 'before and after' pictures... That's amazing what can happen after an early-summer rain (or deluge--as you called it)...
Wow---what a difference.
Hope you are having a great Memorial Day weekend.
Betsy
Though sad to see, the cracked earth had an artistic beauty.
So glad the rains erase them though. Water is even prettier.
Just in time, we needed that rain!
Isn't mother nature wonderful... sometimes!
Sequential before and after pictures are so interesting. Those are big chasms!! Our soil cracks as the lakes recede but I don't think I've ever seen cracks that deep.
Nice! Pictures worth a thousand words, indeed.
Those are some pretty amazing cracks and gorges that developed in the sun-baked earth. I guess the pool from the rain has smoothed it all out... until the next dry spell.
Lovely observations!
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