Where some of the rain goes
Posted: December 22, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, beginnings, Earth, goals, hiking, holidays, home, Local Tourists, nature, Photography, Spirit, videos, water, weather, winter, yoga | Tags: nature, Photography, postaday2011, rain 43 Comments
Walking down to the falls
What do you do when there has been heavy rainfall for the past few days? Why, you visit some of the local waterfalls, of course.
Brandywine Falls, located in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, is a 60-foot waterfall carved out by Brandywine Creek. Normally it looks like a bridal veil, gauzy wisps of water trickling over the rocks (you can see a photo of the waterfall in its normal state here).
Brandywine Creek below.
But after heavy rainfall, it is a torrent of tumultuous water. It’s pretty spectacular.
To get to the falls overlook, you take a series of stairs and boardwalks. Normally moist in the gorge, the rain made it especially wet yesterday. The stairs and boardwalk were slippery.
There were small streams of water pouring into the creek from the sides as seen in the photo above (look towards the top center).
The amazing torrent of water I mentioned was creating quite a mist in the gorge.
A few words of caution
Do you want to see the waterfall? Have I dragged this out long enough?
Pretty impressive, don’t you think? It’s even more impressive in motion and with sound which is why I also took a short video while I was there.
Since it is now officially winter (Merry Yule and/or Happy Solstice!), I thought I should bring you a photo of the falls taken with the white balance set to tungsten to bring a little chill to it.
There are several waterfalls in the area. I’ll bring you some photos of another one tomorrow.
Thanks for joining me on my rainy day hike. It’s still cloudy here in the Bogs today with the occasional drizzle/mizzle. More rain is expected tonight, followed by (they say) snow. We’ll see. 🙂
Life in the Bogs 
Thanks for the trip! I love waterfalls. This one certainly looks powerful here. 🙂
You’re welcome, Ted. And thank you. It was pretty amazing. 🙂
Gosh, those falls look frigid. Happy Solstice, Robin!
Kathy
Thanks, Kathy. 🙂
The water was not as cold as you might think. I know because we hiked down into the gorge after looking at the falls and I was wearing my Vibrams (barefoot shoes) so my feet were soaked by the creek which had overflowed its banks. We had to cross little streams occasionally so my feet were right in the water.
That’s some fast water there! Our falls in South Jersey are trickles compared to that! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it, Teresita. 🙂
In the summer and autumn months, the waterfalls around here are usually mere trickles. 2011 was exceptionally (record-breaking) rainy so there’s lots of water everywhere.
WOW! That is some waterfall!! I can almost hear the rushing water!
Click on the video, Michaela, and you will hear it. 😀
lovely place for a hike and you captured it beautifully for us.
Thank you, Joss. 🙂
The photos are lovely
Thank you, Orel. 🙂
Love the golden feel of those first few images – magical. Video of the falls is impressive!
Thank you, Lynn. 🙂
I love waterfalls. Taking a trip to hike all of the different falls along the North Shore of Lake Superior is one of my favorite things to do. I have never been there in winter, though. With our lake of rain this Fall and no snow, I doubt they are running very strong ..
Thanks for sharing yours.
You’re welcome, Bearyweather. I look forward to seeing your falls sometime in the future. 🙂
Beautiful waterfall hike!! I love the different colors acquired by changing the white balance on the camera, just discovered that one this year!
Thanks, Smidge. 🙂
I just discovered it this year too. It’s fun, learning all the different things that can happen just by making a small change.
That is amazing! We don’t have waterfalls in southern Wisconsin.
I think you have one, Bo. 🙂
Oops. That should have been (and is now) “I think you have one.”
There is a waterfall in Southern Wisconsin? There are in the north… ???
Governor Dodge State Park (southwestern Wisconsin) has Stephens Falls. From the images I’ve seen, it would be interesting to visit in the winter. Want to check it out for me? 🙂
bog-coloured water? great shots, I like especially the one above the video, but even more I like the shot in your header, which leads the eyes off into the distance very nicely.
Thanks, Ehpem. 🙂
More like mud colored water. A lot of earth is being carried around by all the rain water. I’ll be posting that header shot in today’s post.
Lovely colours in the first photo, but what power in the last ones. Wow !
Thank you, Hallysann. 🙂
That’s one heck of a lot of water! Wonderful shots, I can almost hear the roar of it!
Thank you, Lynne. 🙂
We are just 30 to 45 minutes away from Brandywine Falls, but I’ve never seen it look like this! Wow! I’ll have to make a trip to see it. The photos are lovely and tempt me to hop in the car and drive on down!.
Happy holidays.
Oh, you should go, Cecelia! It’s an amazing sight that photos really don’t capture.
WOW! Such amazing power and strength in all that water falling. Wishing you and yours a merry Christmas!
Thank you, Marcie. A very merry Christmas to you and yours, too. 🙂
Looks amazing and scary!
That describes it well, Nigel. 🙂
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What amazing photos and wonderful view of the waterfalls! You filmed it at a perfect time of year!
Thank you, MKMercurio. And thank you so much for stopping by and commenting. I appreciate it. 🙂
Video is great. Jane
Thank you, Jane. 🙂
Wow – those are some serious falls! Beautiful! 🙂
Thanks, Carla. 🙂
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