07 March 2022

High Water

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Carlisle, Massachusetts
   
Concord is in high water.
 During such times, the trail along the river is impassable.
   Except today... all frozen...
   
 Reminds me on J.H.Mitchell's observations
   on how differently humans and nature perceive a floodplain.
 For what humans see as flood to be stopped,
   the plants see as high water. Perfectly adapted, this is just one of their natural states.

   How superb in their calm...

Great Meadows: ... flooded... usually impassable...

Great Meadows: ... except today...

Great Meadows: ... for humans this is a flood...

Great Meadows: ... for plants it is high water...

Great Meadows: ... how superb in their calm...

Great Meadows: ... reaching...

Great Meadows: ... the memories...

Great Meadows: ... just one of their natural states...

Great Meadows: ... with the river...

Great Meadows: ... to remember...