A closer look at “Yellow leaves fallen onto cliff ledges”

From a comment about this morning’s photograph of a cliff in Great Hills Park I realized that you might not have been able to tell that the downward-branching structure at the left was an upside-down sapling, rather that what we expect to branch downward, namely roots. Here, then, is a crop from the original (and much larger) photograph, so you can see more details. I assume that the 5+ inches of rain we had on October 30–31 loosened the hold that this little tree had on the ledge.

© 2013 Steven Schwartzman

Yellow leaves fallen onto cliff ledges

On October 31st, after photographing worms and a crawfish, I walked over to the south side of Great Hills Park, where the first thing to catch my attention was the cliff on the far side of the creek. The heavy rain overnight had brought down lots of yellowing leaves, some of which ended up caught on two parallel ledges fairly high up, and which harmonized nicely with the patches of green lichen already on the limestone face of the cliff.

© 2013 Steven Schwartzman