#2558 "Singleton Cliffs"

#2558 "Singleton Cliffs" 11x14

I was on a reconnaissance paddle around Singleton Lake checking out the loons. This image was from the kayak around 10 am Sunday Wednesday September 29th, 2021. I did not see the loons but found two adult mute swans. The lake was quiet. The weather had turned colder but the water was still warm enough for swimming. 

These steep, marble cliffs have the widely varying water levels etched on them. The lines are an indelible record of the comings and going of precipitation and the seasons. This huge slope of marble on the southern shore of Singleton Lake has recorded the extremes in water levels since the time of the retreating glaciers ten thousand years ago. The etchings are not time stamped unfortunately so we do not really know exactly when these extremes occurred and reoccurred. The water levels are typically low in the autumn and I am not sure why. The hydro dam at Marble Rock is the only obstacle in the flow. The last serious flooding that I recall was the spring of 2014.

I love this type of early morning sky with rows of stratocumulus shielding me from the ultra violet of the sun - or at least most of it. 

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