Standing at the brink of Lucifer Falls its height and drop is impressive.
Although Enfield Creek is usually a fairly small stream, when swollen with heavy, quick downpours, spring run-0ff or long periods of rains, it can become a raging torrent! With swollen flow, large volumes of debris and rocks can alter the creek bed. This year I was lucky enough to visit before the flooding of late August, so the colorful algae growing on the rocks all summer were still there. Now the rocks have been scoured clean, becoming merely grey again.
Early this season when it was wet and flow was high, a large log got hung up at the very brink of the falls. Grasses, delicate and graceful, fresh and green,
growing in rock cracks, belie the harsh reality of their existence.
Walking along the pathway edging along the cliffs, the falls opens up, revealing new looks with each step.
The level stratification of the layered rocks seems impossible. So much time to form, so uniform to be!!
Layer by layer the mountains drifted into the ancient sea and now
exposed for us to see, to see and wonder how it and we came to be.Lucifer Falls is but one of many water falls at Treman State Park, perhaps the loveliest of the parks in central New York!!
1 comment:
I read your words, then looked at all the photos several times. It seems such a lovely place! Of course, I would love to see the falls in flood, but this quiet stream has its own charm. I look at all the layers in the rock, and think no human could ever have that kind of patience, laying down a layer, and another, through hundreds...
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