The Power of Perseverance (And Water)

That part of me which is German took over my senses and wouldn't let go till I found my pictures that I erased accidentally on my memory card. It took me three days but I finally found them thanks to the third recovery program I used. And they were all free. What I didn't know was that the first two programs took all my pictures off my hard drive and dumped them back into my photo library. I now have the pleasure of deleting them, one at a time, and putting them back into oblivion from whence they came. Those first two recovery programs did not, however, retrieve the missing photos. Thank you Pandora for doing what they couldn't do.

I took a good amount of pictures the day after the rains stopped and these are only a few of them. They are all taken in the same vicinity and they all show water where there was not a single drop the day before the storms arrived. Remember that as you view them; not a single drop and all you could see was the sandy colored rounded stones in the creek bed and directly below the dam.

These next two photos are of the dam. Prior to the storm, the water came to the top and did not go over the dam. Not one single drop. For the majority of the summer, there was no water below the dam; therefore, no water made it to the creek either. The pieces of wood in both photos never made it beyond where they are. The turbulence right below the dam was so strong that there was no escape. From the top of the dam to the creek bed below is about six feet.

We stood on both sides just watching as the wood and tree limbs got jumbled around constantly. Couple that with the constant noise of the dam itself and one can get lost in time. However, we did leave eventually and on our journey to other places we found this:
Of course, she wasn't that close to us. I used my zoom lens. She was protecting her little one and kept very still while we watched her. Although it can't be seen in its entirety to get the whole picture, this doe was lying on a hillside with shrubs and trees all around her. The rains had stopped and she found this clearing to take a breather from the harsh weather she had just endured for a few days.