wild water

Into the Wild
In just a few days, my wife and I will be heading out on a road trip that will take us to Yosemite and then on to the eastern slope of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. It’s been a while since we took a trip like this one.  Last time, we had a great camping spot reserved in a meadow high above Yosemite Valley.  When we arrived in the middle of that June, however, the campsite was still under about 14 feet of snow, so we had to make do in what was, because so many higher-elevation sites were
Natural Inspirations
Through the years, a number of key themes have almost effortlessly woven their ways into columns and features published in WaterShapes.  Some of these include the value of design education, the significance of familiarity with art history, the importance of materials selections and the virtues of sound hydraulic design, to name just a few.   Another theme that stands among the most common of all our overarching concepts has to do with