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RM: I'll just lead the way along this ledge a little bit, Jim. Nice view, though, now,
of what Little
River is doing at these, uh, at these Falls. Oh yeah, look at that view!
JW: Wow! Two hundred feet across and sixty feet down. It's . . .
RM: . . . wearing away the rock. Water is good at that, you know, rearranging the world.
And this
is, uh, Sandstone Rock, Sedimentary Rock, and it can be eroded away pretty rapidly.
And, of
course, once that cap rock falls in, the waterfall moves upstream, right? So these waterfalls
are
constantly, in a sense, moving further, uh, upstream, in this case, up, Little River.
Tremendous
amounts of energy right there.
JW: What a view these, these Tent-Caterpillars living here . . .
RM: Uh-huh, they hatched out from eggs early in the Spring. The tree they're on is called
Black
Cherry. They usually pick, uh, Black Cherry Trees or their relatives. Eggs are laid in
the Spring, go
through the Summer, the Winter, and then hatch out the following Spring. And those caterpillars
eat those leaves. Change the Black Cherry leaves into Tent Caterpillar. And spin that
silk, you
see, right where a branch joins the tree. That's kind-of protection for them, and then
they come
out, as you see there, to feed. See the jerky movement on the, uh . . . (JW: They would
on the body there. (JW: They do become Moths, though at some point.) Those turn into Moths
before Summer comes, then they lay eggs, the eggs don't hatch again until the following
Spring.
Interesting animals. Now look up here. There's a flower - oh my goodness - Spring wildflower,
brilliant flower, Yellow Jessamine is the common name. Very, very fragrant flowers you
see up in
the tree there. One of the vines, scrambling to get a little bit of extra energy from the,
uh, from the
sunlight. So many nice things in the Spring, what a great time to be walking in the woods.
