The Power of Water
Because we primarily experience water as a yielding fluid, we tend to think of it as a ‘soft’ element. The world around us gives evidence otherwise. The landscape here at TwoTrees has been shaped over hundreds of thousands of years by the determined efforts of Town Fork Creek, a small drainage stream which directs surface water from the rugged slopes of the Saura Mountains into the Dan River. These ridges are comprised of dense folded layers of what was once an ancient sea bed, their quartz and sandstone compressed under intense heat and pressure. Tough stuff, indeed. And yet, as this metamorphic and igneous landscape was folded and pushed up by forces deep within our earth, flowing water carved it into the relief we see today.
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