Tale of two drops
Is all water created equal?
That depends on what side of the levee you fall on … or rather, “end up.”
Take the case of an unwitting storm cloud blowing across Florida’s southern peninsula:
One of its drops falls in Fisheating Creek up near Palmdale.
The second falls a few miles to the south, in a field of sugar cane.
The first drop meanders east over some of the most beautiful river bottom the southern peninsula has to offer. Then it spills out into Okeechobee,
From where it inherits one of the Everglades most tainted labels: “Lake water.”
The second drop skates by scotch free in comparison: it saunters virtually unnoticed into the Caloosahatchee mid reach.
Both drops could eventually meet again at the S-79 (or in the estuary below), but the difference couldn’t be more stark.
And to think they came from the same cloud.
2 comments:
I always enjoy your little water vids, there's something so cleansing and refreshing about them!!
Thanks Deborah: Having flow water in a water journal helps bring it to life ... that by the way is something we couldn't do with a traditional print journal. But the video clips can only be short ... I've found anything over 2 minutes drones on like mini-series.
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