Water!

We've been having a wonderful wet March.  Here are enough photos of our world to make you tired of waterfalls, but if you could drive through the canyon, you'd see that there are thousands of them all along the way.  I just can't capture them all.

the river at Rock Crest

Jeffery on the bridge at Rock Crest

looking down-river from the Rock Crest Bridge

and now, upriver from the bridge

the train trestle over Rock Creek; Jeffery is in the middle of it, taking his own photos

seen from the Rock Creek trestle

Jeffery looks down from the middle of the trestle

Rock Creek

Rock Creek; this photo is for comparison later, when things change

this log debris raft is sitting there alongside the tumultuous river, and we were fascinated that it just stayed there

Jeffery's photo of Indian Creek above the falls

Indian Falls, or some of it, anyway!

Canyon sunset over Mt. Pleasant at Rich Bar.

one drum-gate down at the Dam, looking at Bald Eagle Mountain

Rock Creek on Saturday

Rock Creek on Sunday, after 3 inches of rain fell on Saturday

My Sunday morning water tour took me past many places that never shed water until such large rains come, so it's been a long time since we've enjoyed such extra delights along the drive through the canyon

The water just comes down everywhere.  And I mean, everywhere.

I rode along, unable to see all the wonderments on both sides of the road and river

across from the Arch Rock Tunnel is a waterfall that normally hides "shyly" in it's tree-shrouded ravine

water just pops into view and shapes itself into brilliant white tracings

it takes me by surprise as it gushes out of the rocky walls and roars at me as I go by

isn't it fabulous?  I wish I could give perspective by having a tiny human up there on the railroad tracks somewhere

There aren't enough pullouts to capture some of the better falls of water that you can follow all the way up to the top

water follows its best course?

I could watch for hours

zoom on a section of Bright Falls

some canyon falls come out into the roadway during really bad storms, which makes driving both exciting and terrifying.

I'll call this Laurie's Falls, since he just discovered it by being a passenger rather than  a driver, and I'll note that the power lines are annoying (hey Lucy!  see what I mean?)

Colby Creek is usually tiny to the point of invisibility

the mosses add to the beauty, don't they

this shows another of the Varieties of waterfalls/creeks - the rocky terrain

uh-oh..... a new creek forms on my friends' driveway as hill seepage has increased

see how the water just pops out of the hillsides?

last one for now, this one at the gauging station below the Rock Creek Dam.  The telephone pole gives size perspective.

There; are you tired of waterfalls yet?  I just can't get enough of them, myself.