Table Falls, December, Quehanna Wild Area, Pennsylvania
The cold, clear mountain water was flowing off the summit of Quehanna, down into her pristine headwaters streams then, in late December. Not much snow that year, at least not at that time.
The fallen leaves of the previous autumn lay withered and brown on both streambanks and stream bottom, their nutrients beginning their return to the soil. Over moss covered rocks and boulders, showcased by the immense slab of horizontal sandstone, the headwaters flowed on, ever feeding the streams and rivers below.
Just how did that slab come to be as it is, so horizontal, while the surrounding boulders are askew every which way? How many thousands of years before the slab is broken into boulders, too?
Photo location: Quehanna Wild Area, Elk State Forest, The Pennsylvania Wilds, Elk and Cameron Counties, Pennsylvania.
