flooding

[rootofnewt]

boy says, "let's go canoeing in the cow pasture!"

yesterday, after gawking at the raging creek near our house and bravely traversing the flooded roadbed, we reach the end of our road to see this sign. Fat lot of good it did US. Anyhow, we crossed six and cross two very shallow wash-overs, then came to Totier Creek. We saw this on the other side of the bridge and beat a hasty retreat.

Now, a bit of background. The creek by our house has a one-lane wood deck bridge over it. It's about two quick steps across during normal times, it was practically non-existent last summer during the drought. When we got home, we walked down the road to take some pictures. You can make out the creekbed--barely. It's normally half that width, but what you can't see is the water UNDER the crusty snow and the water expanding through the flood plain toward the nearest house. Here's the 3-4' fence designed to keep cattle away from the bridge (it's under construction).

I saw this little cedar walking back from the bridge.

The fog yesterday evening was purplish blue. It was gorgeous.

Yesterday. It was nice and warm during the day.

Tom likes our moat. Yes, it curves around the tree and continues westward, then turns southward. It's spotty, then it meets up with our sump pump run off at the southwest corner. There are ruts that are fairly full, though patchy, to the east, then the moat is patchy and turns a little north to where tom is standing.

I have some pics from last night's Bella Morte show to post, but I'll put those in another entry.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

These pics are reminding me of the final chapters of The Dark is Rising.

[lady-lion.livejournal.com]

Bella Morte is going to be in Bloomington, but I can't go because the Boy is supposed to be King Lear on the same night. :-/ They're also stopping by Indianapolis and Dayton, but he has dress rehearsal on those two nights. So unless I find a friend who can go to either the Indy or the Dayton show, I won't be going.