Going to the River

A mountain stream on its way to the river. . .

This one, from Rabbit Rock Holler next to us, will trickle through the culvert under the hard road to join with our own Wool Branch and flow into Anderson Branch. 

A few miles to go and Anderson Branch will  tumble into the French Broad River for the journey to Knoxville, Tennessee where it joins the Holston River and the two form the Tennessee River . . .which flows into the Ohio River . . . which flows into the Mississippi and thence to the Gulf of Mexico . . .and all the oceans of the world.

Quite a journey for such a modest little trickle. If one were an English major, one would be tempted to draw some Greater Truth from this observation . . .