Black Friday

Watershed Nature Center, Edwardsville, Illinois
Photograph by Tom Atwood

No one was here this morning. Maybe it was too cold? Or maybe they were shopping. It is Black Friday, so I had this stream all to myself. It's not really a stream; it's more like runoff from all the rain recently. My guess is this waterfall was actually created by the railroad decades ago. It flows under a bike path (formerly a rail line) built up high above the Watershed Nature Center, to keep trains out of the wetland years ago as they approached the bridge over Cahokia Creek. The large rocks in this photo are not natural, they were part of the railroad project, added to prevent erosion. As if I really know.
Shutter: 2 seconds; Aperture: f/29; ISO: 100; Focal length: 55 mm.