What seemed to me to most spectacular thing about Glacier National Park was all the ways water manifested. I saw it as little jewels in droplets,
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| Coalescing dew drops |
as drips off rock walls,
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| Dripping Water in Sunrift George |
in streams,
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| McDonald Creek |
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| Fish Creek |
in little puddles and alpine lakes,
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| Kintla Lake |
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| Lake Bowman |
as torrents,
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| Snow melt near The Loop on Going-to-the-Sun Road |
and thundering waterfalls.
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| Waterfalls on McDonald Creek |
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| St. Mary Waterfalls |
Pulsing,
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| Lower Volume |
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| Higher Volume |
fuming and spraying.
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| St Mary's Waterfalls |
Even in other states of matter: solids,
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| Salamander Glacier in Many Glaciers |
and gas.
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| View in Many Glaciers |
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| Clouds on West Side of Glacier National Park |
My left brain reminded me of how special the chemical water is - it's the only one we can experience on earth in all three states. How moving water generates awesome power. And how everything on earth is mostly water.
Then my right brain chimed in with all the ways water gives us beauty, excitement, calmness, and joy. It's definitely the stuff of life and spirit.
Lovely post. The variety seems endless. But then our days to view the frozen variety are ending. I feel privileged to have seen in through these past decades. Each time I view Glaciers beauty it is as if I saw it for the first time.
ReplyDeleteYes the actual glaciers will be gone, probably by 2030. And its beauty is ever changing, with the seasons, the rainfall, the light, and the clouds.
DeleteSometimes it seems like water is truly the "blood" of our planet. Beautiful post.
ReplyDeleteIt's what makes a planet habitable.
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