McGirts Creek, 2014br/Archival pigment printbr/24” x 16”br/I-295 crosses McGirts Creek just east of the Blanding Blvd exit, one of the busiest intersections on the beltway. As the cars and trucks rumbled overhead on 9 lanes of highway, I thought about this marvelous creek holding on to its wildness. Most people probably think they are driving over a drainage ditch if they have any awareness at all. We cannot care about that which we do not know. Places this special and fragile are largely hidden from our consciousness, so only a few defend the need for preservation. Once gone, it is erased for a lifetime.