We had some terrible flooding here in Western Massachusetts from Hurricane Irene (see earlier blog post for photo’s). My backyard is the Green River, a place I walk nearly every day. It has changed so much since the storm… some places hardly recognizable. Once the river went down enough and places were not so muddy that I could actually walk and not sink, I discovered some amazing beauty. There is an area were the earth is caked with clay and silt… large cracks nearly a foot deep everywhere the clay is drying. I came upon this one area where the leaves remained on top of the clay as the area around the leaves settled down with more rain a week later. I don’t know if the photo’s can capture the perfection of this magnificence of nature.
Mother Nature is violent and magnificent. This is amazing. So glad you are beginning to dry out…..
It’s good to see some beauty after all the disaster!
I love pressing leaves in clay – but nature’s way is absolutely amazing!
Wow, that’s really cool, thanks for taking the time to take pictures and share it with us!
Amazing, isn’t it, how Nature can turn total destruction into beauty (and vice versa) with just the flick of her wrist? Glad you’ve made it through okay.
pretty cool imagery
Yeah, it was quite amazing!