Pic(k) of the Week: Tree over beaver dam

The residents of a beaver lodge have been busy building a dam on Cecilia Creek.

Seminary Wood in Legacy Park: City of Decatur, Georgia, USA. 15 March 2025.

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Reuben Brown: All My Tomorrows
Album: Blue and Brown (SteepleChase, 1998)

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Pic(k) of the Week: Elfen Glenn

Elfen 'waterfall' of Glenn Creek, on a frigid winter's morning, in Decatur Cemetery.

City of Decatur, Georgia, USA, 25 January 2025.

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Harold Mabern Trio: To Wane

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Pic(k) of the Week: Wetlands, illuminated

Winter afternoon sun dappled the wetlands of Burnt Fork Creek.

Photographed from a boardwalk along the South Peachtree Creek Trail: DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 20 January 2025.

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Gunther Schuller: Variant I on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (Criss Cross)

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Pic(k) of the Week: Turkeyfoot riffles

Riffles on Turkeyfoot Creek.

Serene, tranquil.

Urban cacophony, vanquished.

Cascade Springs Nature Preserve: City of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 9 August 2024.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Turkeyfoot cascades

"If you hold my hand and sit real still, you can hear the grass as it grows." 

I took this photo of small cascades on Turkeyfoot Creek. And then I sat there and listened.

Cascade Springs Nature Preserve: City of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 9 August 2024.

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Pic(k) of the Week: A confluence of creeks

A confluence of creeks: where the six-mile Burnt Fork Creek (left) joins the fifteen-mile South Fork Peachtree Creek (right and foreground).

Peachtree Creek is a major stream in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It flows for 7.5 miles (12.1 km) almost due west into the Chattahoochee River. Its two major tributaries are the North Fork Peachtree Creek and the South Fork Peachtree Creek. The southern fork is 15.4 miles (24.8 km) long. The southern edge of its basin borders the Eastern Continental Divide.

— Wikipedia

Ira B. Melton Park: DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 2 July 2024.

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Seen from a rock ford in the South Fork Peachtree Creek, along the Three Creeks Trail: one in a "labyrinth of soft-surfaced trails" in and around a 120-acre suburban-Atlanta Piedmont forest.

The trail connects Ira B. Melton Park (south, to the right) to the larger Mason Mill Park (north, to the left). The third creek of the trail's name is Glenn Creek, a 2-mile creek that empties into the South Fork Peachtree Creek about 1/5 mile downstream of this image.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Creek chiaroscuro

Creek chiaroscuro.

Suburban wilding.

Look and listen.

Rapids on Burnt Fork Creek in Mason Mill Park: DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 21 May 2024.


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Pic(k) of the Week: Laurel Creek waterfall

Evergreen mountain laurel trees ring small Laurel Creek as it cascades into the (slightly) larger Stephenson Creek.

Seen alongside (that is, clambered down from) the Flat Rock spur of the Arabia Mountain PATH trail in the Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve: DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 27 February 2024.

Note to self: Return in spring, when the mountain laurel is blooming.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Sylvan grotto

Not really a grotto, but, in cold winter, the sylvan feel of the creek and its surroundings exuded Arcadian seclusion.

Crooked Creek flowing from Mountain Lake, in Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area, near Stonecrest, Georgia, USA, on 26 January 2023.

We tarried awhile.

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Erich Korngold's Violin Concerto, 1st movement: a guilty pleasure, perhaps, but nonetheless suggesting a musical 'feel' of the scene.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Nature contemplation

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

On a spring-like winter's afternoon, a gentleman was sitting still on the banks of Glenn Creek, seemingly contemplating its simple beauty.

Glenlake Park: Decatur, Georgia, USA. 20 February 2023.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Peachtree rapids & riffles

Rain-filled rapids and riffles on the South Fork Peachtree Creek, in a 120-acre urban Piedmont forest.

Mason Mill Park, in DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 9 February 2023.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Ephemeral rapids

Arabia Mountain is a monadnock —"an isolated small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain"— located just over 20 miles southeast of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Primarily composed of granite-like migmatite rock, the 'mountain' is 955 feet (290 m) above sea level, rising 172 feet (52 m) above the surrounding countryside.

Here, ephemeral pools, recently overfilled by rain, empty down its exposed rock face. The hillcrest in the image is some distance from the summit.

Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area: Stonecrest, Georgia, USA. 26 January 2023.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Mallard whirlpool

An autumn breeding pair of mallards dabbling in a wetland pond.

South Peachtree Trail: DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 6 December 2022.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Glenn Creek Falls

A waterfall —or is it a riffle?— cascades on Glenn Creek (a tributary of Peachtree Creek) within several acres of ravined woodland belonging to Decatur Cemetery, in the city of Decatur, Georgia, USA. Photo taken on 07 January 2022.

Decatur Cemetery is the oldest burial ground in the Atlanta, Georgia-metropolitan area. Officially created by the Decatur government in 1832, the cemetary is believed to have been in use even before then. In 1997, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Cecilia's wetlands

Marshlands of Cecilia Creek (or more prosaically, East Fork Middle Branch Shoal Creek), in Seminary Wood.

Photo taken in Legacy Park, within the boundaries of the City of Decatur, in the state of Georgia, USA.

Happy vernal equinox! ^*

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Pic(k) of the Week: Still leaf with rapids

"Hi! Why are you doing that?" a young girl enquired as I lay prone on a flat rock on the banks of the creek, focusing my camera.

"I'm trying to see what the fish see," I responded.

She seemed to think about that for a couple of seconds, said, "Oh," and walked off.

A 'fish-eye' view of tiny rapids in Shoal Creek, in Dearborn Park, Decatur, Georgia, on 11 May 2019.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Riparian tree in winter

Roots stretched down the bank;

Arms twisted up, some yet frocked. 

Calm tenacity. 

Winter of 2018/2019, on Sugar Creek, in the Kirkwood neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.

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Pic(k) of the Week: As Cascade Falls

It's what you don't hear. Once the site of a Civil War battle, Turkeyfoot Creek's cascade now masks the sound of automobiles above.

A long-exposure at Cascade Springs Nature Preserve, in Atlanta (Cascade Heights), Georgia, on 9 January 2018.

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