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Hollins Mill Black Water Creek &quot;Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.” Lao Tzu
Unrolling itself “Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.” Henri Cartier-Bresson (French Photographer, 1908-2004)
Where the Falls ends. It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. Unknown Crabtree Falls has a fascinating history and offers many nice features, but something I found struck me as most unusual—a pay phone. There is a telephone right after you cross the Tye River—a strange thing to see in the woods. It was put in because of the growing number of accidents at the falls: rescue numbers are posted inside. There have been twenty-one deaths and many injuries at Crabtree Falls. The forest service even maintains a four-wheel-drive road at the top of the falls primarily for use in rescues. (The number of deaths have changed sine gorp commented on this from 21 to 23.) from: gorp.away.com/gorp/publishers/menasha/waterfalls1.htm
dreamers of the dream “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams.&quot; Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
Vantage Point “It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.” James Agee Best seen large
photographer's adventure “It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.” James Agee (American Writer and Critic, 1909-1955)
Bridge over the James at Eagle Rock “Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.” Danielle Steel Where I am standing is on a bridge that was washed out by a flood. I am on part of the bridge that remains. The broken bridge I am on predates the American Civil War. It was used by mules to drag wagons of lime and iron ore to a foundry on my right which is also outdated and abandoned. The flood I believe happened in the 1970's and nearly washed Eagle Rock off the map. The old bridge was replaced by this one.
know everything there is to be known “Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.” Winnie the Pooh About this photo: This foot bridge spans the base of the Crabtree Falls at the Tye river. Up ahead, in the next several days I am going to take you on adventure 3 miles of trails up about 1500 feet. Crabtree Falls, according to who you listen to is the highest falls on the East Coast. It is definitely the highest cascading falls. In recent history 23 people have died making the trek up the mountain to the falls. The trail over the years has improved greatly, yet still people fall. -------------------- The 110-foot wooden bridge across the Tye River has a most interesting story. It was the first of the trail improvements made by the forest service in the late 1970s. When I read the cost, I thought it must be a misprint—$62,000! Why so much? This beautiful bridge, a laminated arch, was shipped from New York in one piece. Cranes lifted and placed it over the Tye River in 1978. from: gorp.away.com/gorp/publishers/menasha/waterfalls1.htm
angels come The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. - George Eliot
angels come
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
- George Eliot
angels come The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. - George Eliot
angels come
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
- George Eliot
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