English Summer Forest Stream

Sitting along the stream, in the lush summer air, you begin to relax and let the weight of your thoughts become submerged in the crystal clear waters. You dip your feet one by one, into the cool water, and feel tiny pebbles, twigs, and leaves rush past and away from you. With eyes closed under the splendor of the sun, you focus entirely on the water, as it moves quickly downstream. A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill (occasionally ghyll), kill, lick, mill race, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run, or runnel.