Rain
came hard last night, followed by clearing that made the sunrise reflect off
the water that still glistened on every surface. The humidity of the ground
steamed in the building daylight, making a strange fog-like layer that ended
about 6 feet high.
The
water over the spillway at Moore State Park was flowing quickly on account of
the deluge, and there was a fair roar of it as the volume made its way down the
cascades past the old mill site.
The
mill pond is particularly pretty now, with lily pads thriving and Joe Pye Weed
and goldenrod thrust up on the near shore line. I suspect the pool was more
stagnant yesterday owing to the drought, but the overnight rain took care of
that.
The
sandy path from the mill into the woods was still damp, and a few low spots had
small puddles waiting to soak into the ground. Where the trail descended into
the pine woods, as it formed a single track, the fallen pine needles were
arranged in horizontal bands roughly 3 feet apart, evidence of an effluvial
flow down the path making eddies of floating debris.
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