Thunderstorm Lining

Once again, I was rained out of a sunrise.  It was a real gully-washer of a thunderstorm this time.  It's hard to shoot pictures in a cloud with blowing rain.  And I don't shoot in lightning.  

I didn't feel much like walking in the rain either, once the worst of the storm passed.  So I gave up and headed home.  About halfway down the mountain, I noticed there were impromptu waterfalls about every hundred yards.  I pulled over at a pullout and photographed one — about 20 feet off the road.

I call them "impromptu" but they've been there a long time.  This one runs into a culvert (and then under the highway) built by the CCC.  So that's at least 80 years ago.  There's only a few inches of topsoil, anywhere on the mountain, before you get down to rock.  The water has to go somewhere.  And it goes there in a hurry.  These will be dry again in a day or so.

Somewhere near the border of Monte Sano State Park and the Monte Sano Nature Preserve (part of the Land Trust of North Alabama) along the Bankhead Parkway in Huntsville, Alabama. 

Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR

18mm

F16@1.6 seconds

ISO 400

White Balance on Flash

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