storms have come / rains wash the earth away
I had a Hobbit visiting me a few weeks ago, and I took him through Schenley Park one afternoon after work. We went on a route that I've taken many times over the years, most recently during Carnival this spring, that starts from from the top of W Circuit Rd and Schenley Dr, and traverses gently down a stream full of destroyed steps and rocks.
Almost immediately, I noticed differences. For starters, the beginning steps that led down from near the road (then crumbled to overgrown boulders shortly thereafter), well, they were nice, well-formed stairs that came in from both sides, and went further down. Then after that, the stream bed had changed significantly from what I remembered it being, mostly with much more debris scattered around. I kept turning around and exclaiming at a new rockfall, or landscape change. I finally decided that the most likely culprit was the large storm that had blown through a few weeks prior.
Of course, this was all odd to me only because I was familiar with previous views, but when I tried to dig up past pictures I had of the area, they weren't really exact enough to be able to tell the aberrancies. So I went back a few days later, armed with camera and pictures to duplicate, and attempted to capture similar scenes. The lighting wasn't optimal for my camera (or its photographer), but I got some fun comparison shots. If nothing else, I thought it was an interesting view between seasons. Maybe I'll go back in the fall and do another.