These images are from a bend on the Charles River in Watertown Massachusetts, known to the Wampanoag Indians as Quinobequin meaning “meandering”. Located in the middle of a densely populated industrial city, this small Eden-like patch of wildness is located only 1/16th of a mile from a once polluting abandoned factory. A drive by view on journeys between commercial and residential development, it survives as wilderness only because it has not so far been needed for economic purposes. It is not protected by any conservation laws. It is a striking example of the dramatic variety of unspoiled nature. I photographed this river bend at the same time each month over a year, to reveal how temperature, light and moisture show how varied and exciting the natural world can be, unlike the sameness of the rest of the environment in which most of us dwell.