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here's one of my favorite places, the ephemeral creek Sometimes it is flowing and sometimes not 

Here are some aspects of creek

As you can see, the creek bed meanders. a squiggly creek holds more water than a straight one within the same distance, and creates all sorts of cool effects as erosion nibbles at one bank and deposits pebbles and mud on the other

When the water starts to go around the curve, it hits the bank and erodes underneath the tree roots, creating a little overhang where creatures can be shaded from the sun. But then once the water is all the way around the curve and loses its momentum, sediment settles out of it and makes a gently sloping beach

As you follow the creek bed it squiggles all over the flood plain and splits up and joins together, forming a tangly mess of creek beds that form an interesting and playful wetland area

Every so often along the mostly dry creek bed, there is a pool filled with water! It is much deeper than the rest of the creek.

How did that happen? Well you can see in the pictures below that something (whether a living tree root, or a bunch of dead tree branches and debris) blocked off the creek, it made the mud and pebbles pile up instead of washing further downstream. The creek bed above the blockage became much taller, which when the creek was running, made a waterfall. My idea is that the waterfall eroded into the creek bottom with greater force created by the increased height, which carved the pool deeper.

Because there are so many deep pools, the creek is like a string of pearls where each pearl represents a tiny pond. The tiny ponds hold the water in even when it hasn't rained in a long time. This makes it popular with animals whose tracks you can see in the mud

There are signs of life everywhere, let's turn over a rock and see if we can find some...

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Day lilies

Oh? A friend!

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(by Russell W Barnes)

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Cetonia Aurata... in peignoir😯

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“Love Song” by Jordan Bolton

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The chosen one

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The coach knows what to do

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Bruh,,,,

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Autumn