Rollers once used in pulp preparation are turned into industrial yard art at the old NVF facility in Yorklyn.

Ducks look for food in the Brandywine Creek on a late Sunday morning.

Knots and bark texture give character to a tree.

Two egrets keep their distance while looking for food in a pond.

It’s not a shrimp on the barbie but Mike Dehaut, aka “Mr. D,” the camp director at Brandywine Battlefield Park History Camp, throws some corn on the grill during the weekly lunch at the camp. There was turkey, duck, rabbit, ham, beef, string beans, beets, squash, a variety of fruits and a traditional dish of sausage, onion and apple called bubble and squeak.

A run trickles through a shady area on a Chadds Ford property.

Shadow and light on rock and roots create interesting patterns.

A flight of butterflies lands and takes a stroll near the Brandywine Creek.

A flowing Brandywine Creek continues to cause erosion and exposes more of a tree's root system — as well as a flat-rock seat — near the Brandywine River Museum of Art.

The Brandywine Creek is the place to be on a hot summer morning.