If the highly creative and original Dr. Suess could have his way with a "seep," this is surely what it would look like. Watching it grow and change over the past days has been quite entertaining. It has been noted by one in the know....that I seem to have a "serious attraction" to this spot. Only a pogonip, followed by a snow storm that dumped three inches in about two hours today, kept me from my rounds.
This cliff drips water from the old river bottom cobbles in the cut bank even in the driest days of August and September. Howard, a hydrologist with the Forest Service, tells me that this is because rain and snow is stored in an aquifer beneath this particular spot. The ground is porous and has cracks and allows the water to percolate up and be released all year. This water then heads back down for the river now several hundred feet below this old river channel.
I liked Howard. He is a man of science who does not negate possible magic. When I asked him Carole's question, "Do you think water remembers"? He answered, "It has not been proven, but it is possible."
ALL THE WATER THERE WILL BE ...........IS. Let us take good care of this life giving treasure.
This cliff drips water from the old river bottom cobbles in the cut bank even in the driest days of August and September. Howard, a hydrologist with the Forest Service, tells me that this is because rain and snow is stored in an aquifer beneath this particular spot. The ground is porous and has cracks and allows the water to percolate up and be released all year. This water then heads back down for the river now several hundred feet below this old river channel.
I liked Howard. He is a man of science who does not negate possible magic. When I asked him Carole's question, "Do you think water remembers"? He answered, "It has not been proven, but it is possible."
ALL THE WATER THERE WILL BE ...........IS. Let us take good care of this life giving treasure.
See water move under ice at this linkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF2XOl_NQxM
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Learn why "Icicles Have Ripples" at this link to a Discovery channel...http://www.exn.ca/video/?video=exn20030310-factofthematter.asx
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The photos are beautiful. I wish I could have been there to see such a sight. Missing you. DC
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