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High water this spring in Yosemite has closed many of the trails in the valley including the one to where I camped this night. Tenaya Creek, a tributary of the Merced was so high that rangers closed the trail to the campground which forced campers to walk a few miles around near Mirror Lake.
This is a 4 shot panorama that I shot while getting chowed on by mosquitos. The golden light was worth the itchiness!
This is a close-up photo of submerged autumn leaves in a current of water flowing in a small ditch beside a walking path. I love how the tangle of reflections, patterns and forms suggests pareidolia figures to the imagination.
Even though the actual spring is usually obscured by mist, the runoff around the Grand Prismatic spring is always beautiful to view and photograph.
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From Excelsior Geyser into the Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park.
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A pair of EMD F40PH locomotives pull Amtrak's California Zephyr train No. 6 approaching Rio, Utah, at the east end of Rio Grande's Thistle Line Change on May 16, 1987.
Looming large are the verdant slopes of 10,695 Loafer Mountain, with the drainage of Soldier Creek flowing westward toward Thistle Junction where it will join Thistle Creek to form the Spanish Fork River, ultimately joining Utah Lake.
This photo angle is impossible to capture today as 38 years of trees and brush have formed between the creek and the D&RGW right of way, completed in 1983.
Image scanned from an 8x10" Kodak digital print.
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Normally just a small trickle but after 3 days of heavy rain the mountains were gushing downward to fill the rivers. This was one of a few hundred we saw from Cherokee to Gatlinburg.
Much as deer trails appear in the snow in exactly the same locations year after year, so it is with the rivulets that form from the melting snow rushing to its final destination in the lake. It makes one wonder how long these perfectly consistent and repetitive patterns in nature have endured...the answer, of course, a very long time.
[Large, as might be expected, is better.]
Bacteria and cyanobacteria grow in the run off of Grassy Spring, part of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. Small travertine terraces can be seen running across the photo. These terrace are made of calcium carbonate precipitated out of the water. The very shallow pools behind the terraces are covered with mats of thermophilic organisms. Thermophiles are organisms that thrive at relatively high temperatures.
We always stop by the Great Sand Dunes on the way to the Crane Festival and this was the first time we've seen Medano Creek with water in it. The creek was frozen and as the sun began to rise the water melted and started flowing.