It’s been an epic rain we’ve been having today – creating great conditions to see how the site has changed.
I was just there 20 minutes ago – and while none of the weirs was submerged, the atmosphere is saturated with the intensity of the rushing waters – sound, smell, feel and sight. Places I normally walked safely and unthinkingly, I had to be careful of. With the thunder and the velocity of the waters and the power of the waters at the convergence, the normally meditative river assumed a more menacing demeanor. I know that I would have had no chance had I fallen in.
There was a beauty to the place, and a magic to seeing the flotsam there on top of the waters in the eddy near the last weir. Being there, I realize, I got to witness another part of the river’s process. The same process that inspired this project.
