Impaled Croc

I thought of the Wards today when I came upon this Croc on the trail with the stick through it. The Wards recently drowned in the Suwannee down stream in Lafayette County. They had just arrived at their second home on the river, the keys were still in the vehicle, the house locked, cell phone in seat. They saw scuff marks on the dock, found them two days later. 68 and 60 years of age.
The Suwannee does not mess around.

Suwannee in a bottle

I am thinking that I should have taken this trapped Suwannee River water and released it.

Santa Wasp

Do not know what he was up to, flying through webs perhaps.

Fit for a bride

 

In the Horsemint

Looking for creatures in the horsemint, I spotted this anole and a strange wasp with white antennae.

From the far side

Crossing over, climbing up the steep bank, I did look back for one last shot of the falls.

Above the Roaring

On the return trip, I gingerly stepped across the upper falls. Earlier I had crossed below the sandbar downstream, sinking in sand. Here, I stepped in a hole and almost got my foot stuck.

The aftermath

Deposited upon the shore downstream, many logs and sticks from the recent high water levels.

Into the light of Suwannee

The light came from behind the cloud cover and lit the big shoals today.

Light unto these Shoals

The corners cropped due to the stacking of filters causing the barrel affect.

Cypress Abstraction

The foam swirls from the big shoals at the mouth of Roaring Creek on the Suwannee.

After Carlton

Saw a grand photograph by Carlton Ward of a Tupelo on the Suwannee with the red tannic in the foreground. I had his photo in mind when I took this.