Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Water Water

This is sort of a cryptic image I took last week on our sojourn to western Maine. We stopped in Grafton Township, near Bethel at Screw Auger Falls. Sometimes, when I travel, I come across names that I just love to say Screw Auger... Got to love it. It's a  small waterfall complex coming off the Bear River. The total drop of the falls from top to bottom is 43 feet, with the tallest single drop of 18 feet at the gorge. These falls are quite close to the Route 26. Pull into the parking lot, walk about 25 yards and you are there at the top of the gorge. It's one of the most scenic spots, especially during the fall when the trees are exploding in color. Old Speck Mountain is close by. Many summers ago, Elenka and I spent a July 4th weekend backpacking the arduous climb. 
If you love humidity, black flies and bears, you should have been with us. 

*This is a photo of granite, being washed-over with the falls' runoff.
To me, it sort of looks like I'm peering into either a microscope or perhaps a telescope. 
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13 comments:

  1. LowellJuly 29, 2014 at 7:55 AM

    You have a fine imagination. Well, you have an imagination! :) Perhaps you could write books for Mainiacs?

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  2. RandyJuly 29, 2014 at 9:25 AM

    Sounds like a nice hike.

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  3. EG CameraGirlJuly 29, 2014 at 9:35 AM

    Hmmm. The black bears and humidity would have slowed me down but the black flies would have done me in.

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  4. SharonJuly 29, 2014 at 10:33 AM

    Humidity, black flies, bears, I remember one camping trip many, many years ago that sounds quite similar. If I'm not mistaken, we packed up and moved on from a camp site because those #@$% flies were so bad.

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  5. TexWisGirlJuly 29, 2014 at 10:39 AM

    i read it as 'screw anger'. yeah, SCREW ANGER!!! :D

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  6. RevrunnerJuly 29, 2014 at 4:15 PM

    Yep, black flies--that's why I haven't climbed Mt. Baker--yet.

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  7. RedPatJuly 29, 2014 at 4:36 PM

    I would never have thought that it was granite!

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  8. William KendallJuly 29, 2014 at 7:49 PM

    The shot has a very impressionist feel to it.

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  9. KateJuly 29, 2014 at 9:14 PM

    I decided to put Maine on my bucket list; you should be dubbed an Ambassador.

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  10. Bob CroweJuly 29, 2014 at 10:03 PM

    Re-do this in fabric and you could hang it on the wall of the Whitney Museum in New York.

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  11. MichelleJuly 29, 2014 at 10:04 PM

    Didn't think that was granite.

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  12. HalcyonJuly 30, 2014 at 4:32 AM

    Thanks for the explanation of what the photo is. I love seeing waterfalls. There's just something about the power of all that water.

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  13. Sharon CreechJuly 30, 2014 at 10:15 AM

    What beautiful texture and pattern in that stone/water. I thought it was fabric or cobwebs over tree trunks . . .

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