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July 5th, 2009
Silent Sunday: Great Falls Park, Virginia
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July 5th, 2009
Silent Sunday: Great Falls Park, Virginia
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Wonderful photo! The strength of that water comes through!
I tagged you today but there’s no obligation to play along: http://beadedtail.blogspot.com/2009/07/weve-been-tagged-and-viva-las-vegas.html
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Those really are some great falls…okay, enough bad puns…takes me back to the utterly miserable period of my life not long ago when I was living outside Ithaca NY…life’s one big consolation being frequent visits to the local gorges with their waterfalls…haven’t seen a real waterfall since…
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I love the rocks at the middle and how the strong current of water pass through it. I have never been to Virginia yet, I hope to visit that part of the country someday.
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Hi BeadedTail and thanks so much. Yeah, Great Falls is especially dangerous this time of year. And thank you for the tag. I’ll be over to check it out…
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Hi drjay. I remember you talking about that time—it was before you moved closer to your mom, I think. And I mentioned that we vacationed up there once, drove through NY all the way up to Niagara Falls. I’ll have to drag out those photos because I remember we took a lot. That was the first time I saw any falls other than Great Falls, which never seemed, to me, to be a real waterfall. So, it sounds like you haven’t ventured back there…
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Hi betchai. Yeah, the currents are really strong and each year people are warned to stay out of the water. There’s always someone who doesn’t listen, though.
Holly whoa – that is some serious looking water. It seems like it comes right out of the ground at you. I hope you had a bungee cord wrapped around you as you took the photograph.
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Hi Koe. Yeah, these waters are pretty dangerous and unfortunately, someone dies every year when they’re caught up in the currents. I took this from one of the viewing areas so I was behind a railing…although a bungee cord sounds like fun!
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Hi Holly,
Nice place – is that close to where you live?
I hope you had Lucy on a tight leash …
Cheers
PM
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You can tell how much rain you guys have been getting.
I love coming here — it reminds me of home. It’s been a long time since I’ve been to Great Falls.
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Hi PM. This is not too far, maybe a 20-minute drive. These waters run along the Virginia-Maryland border and empty into our Potomac River. The shoreline on the right-hand side of the photo is the state of Maryland.
Yes, we had a good hold on Lucy as she was all over the place…she loves it there! Only after returning home and reading the brochure did I realize that poisonous copperhead snakes live among the rocks…yikes!
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Hi Jennifer. Yeah, it seems as though it rains every couple of days…just won’t dry out! But all that rain does make for nice rapids.
That’s funny—one of the reasons I like your place so much is your writings on your growing up here. Your writing is so beautiful and expressive and it always draws me in.
Excellent shot, holly. I can almost hear the sound of waterfalls. Oh the amazing nature :)
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Thanks so much, Hicham. Photos really don’t do justice to Great Falls. They don’t show all the churning and rushing very well, at least my photos don’t. I agree, amazing…
Wow! How did I miss this post? So much power in there!! Really beautiful work, Holly. :)
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Hi Svasti…glad you like it. Those waters are powerful and I wish my photo showed that. Maybe a video would’ve been better. Then you could hear the water.
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