Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to appreciate the differences in water levels over the seasons!

Seasonal Water Levels

The little man and I go out exploring quite a bit, with the local region around us being well traversed by us! We especially love going to lakes, rivers and reservoirs because of the ability to do some fishing and seeing the landscapes around it.

The thing that I wanted to talk about here was the difference that we saw in this one spot, that's one of our favorites, in the autumn versus what it looks like in late spring. You can tell this best by looking at this little waterfall here!

Waterfalls are absolutely one of our favorite things, for various reasons. They are beautiful in many regards and wonderful to look at and hear. It's interesting to also think about the sheer quantity of water that moves over it on a daily basis. The thousands of gallons that are moving over a waterfall in a given day is wild to think about! I love to sit there and listen to the rumbling of the fall, even if it's a smaller one like this, you can still hear the vibration and crescendo of the water as it's going from the higher elevation to the lower one.

With this stream here, and the reservoir it dumps into, the local water management groups are actively keeping the water levels at certain levels depending on the season. I just learned of this officially, last year. I was always curious to figure out why they were draining and filling the reservoirs but it turns out, since we get a decent amount of snowfall, it's to control the melting of the snow in the spring so we don't get crazy flooding. Makes sense!

You can get a little bit of an appreciation for how much water they drain out of the reservoir and stream here by looking at the bridge here. The dark lines are where the water normally resides when the thing is fill. When you're walking around it when it's down like this though, it's a little hard to get a full appreciation for how much is there until you come back in the late springtime to really get a picture of it! Well I knew that when I took these pictures, I would definitely want to come back and see it again in the spring to measure the differences visually.

This is what it looked like when we came back just a few weeks ago! Damn, that's quite a lot of difference. There isn't even a waterfall you could see! The water is completely level with itself, and only under the surface would there be a tiny bit of a falls, but just because of the changing from one depth to another for the bottom of the riverbed. This was definitely a wild thing to see! I know that we've been here a few times but we didn't really pay attention to the detail like we did here and it's crazy to think of the ways that the earth goes through cycles of scarcity and abundance. In the late fall and winter, things dry up and water levels reduce. In this case it was artificially but even still when you're out walking, you can see the water levels lower in some of the spots.

With the coming of springtime and the melting of the snow not only in the lower regions here, but also in the higher mountain areas and subsequent filling of the rivers and streams, you really get an appreciation and view into just how much water there is in those mountains and snowy areas! It fills these things right up to the brim and it gets the whole area ready for spring and summertime growth. Wonderful to step back and look at to appreciate the cycles of it all, and how truly powerful the planet is!

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