Well, even with the heavy rains overnight and gale winds at times, the colors at White Rock withstood the night. Although there was evidence of standing water in the low areas and leaves everywhere, the colors were full and bright.
It took a search for where the birds had gone. A few mallards were found swimming in the standing water at Preservation Grove and the stone tables. The pelicans were up at a fairly good altitude riding the wind currents.
There were more people at the spillway for obvious reasons. The waters were in a mad rush over the upper spillway. Down the spillway run and into all three channels in the flood basin continued to carry water where it rushed over the step down spillways nearly as fast as the upper spillway rush. White Rock Creek on its way to meet the Trinity was full and the currents were swift.
All in all, nature gave us a few more days to observe the beautiful colors over the upcoming weekend before the growing season gets stopped with the first frost maybe next week. In the meantime, here are a couple of shots from the afternoon beauty.
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| The White Rock Mist |
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| Even the beaver was packing away twigs for food later. |
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| At times it really got misty. It looked like smoke a couple of times. |
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| Plenty of colors left. |
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