As falls Wichita, so falls Wichita Falls

In the very early 1980s, I picked up a vinyl jazz album with a title that I spent a week or so trying to decipher. The artists were guitarist Pat Metheny and keyboardist Lyle Mays. The album title is the headline on this post.

The two musicians met in Wichita in the 1970s, and Mays would eventually join the Pat Metheny Group, a notable ensemble in the jazz genre. (I did not particularly care for this album, however, which happened to be Metheny’s first foray into including synthesizers in his work.)

For some reason, the duo’s curious album title popped to mind as I was making pictures Saturday of the historic mill and waterfall on my most recent visit to Yates Mill Pond Park in Raleigh.

I admit that using the above factoid about the Metheny and Mays album lead into a post of this photo shoot is a stretch. But I decided to do it anyway given how the album title has kept coming to mind day after day since I made the trip out there. I figured if I used it in the blog post, maybe it would go away. We'll see.

While I was at the park Saturday, it occurred to me that I'd never done a shoot there focusing almost entirely on the waterfalls next to the mill. So the waterfalls is what this post about. And in true Photo Potpourri fashion, I'll include other pictures I took there that day. :-)

Below are the falls from various angles and perspectives, followed by the mill and the falls, the mill's reflection on the pond, the interesting stone used in a circular seating area and as separation from a lower-elevation area, and a couple shots of a caterpillar I came across along the way.