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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> Bev posted about her creek a few days ago.  Unless you live in a
> place where you expect to get rain and then don't get it for a couple
> of years, you can't understand the utter fascination with seeing
> water there on the ground right in front of God and everybody.

That is so true.  It is like a miracle to see water where there was once
only rock.


> Last year Bev and I were both in 'Extreme Drought' areas.  This year
> her area was upgraded to "Sand, dust, dead cow skulls, and buzzards
> circling overhead".  My area was not and remained for a second year
> in the extreme drought zone.

I've heard that we are doing well this year on rainfall..lol
Seriously, I think my area really is coming out of the long term drought.


> Then the gods relented.  It took four or five good three day rains
> storms for the springs to begin flowing again.  Then another and the
> creeks began to come back beyond an ooze.  Finally this last round
> resulted in freshets springing up in the road.
>
> The world is a very different place with water!

Your creeks are beautiful.
The next time mine run, I am going to take pictures of where "my creek"
(I really should name it..it just says Dry Creek on the latest topo
map..) flows into Rock Creek AKA Hidden Creek.  That creek can appear
and disappear in an hour's time.  It was 2-4 feet deep last week, so
that is no small feat.

> Yet with all this rain the creeks are just now up to their average
> normal level.  Here are some pictures of our creeks I took today, if
> they don't open it's because the freebie site they are on has maxed
> out its transfer quota, just wait a bit and try again.

Thanks for sharing those pictures, James.  It is beautiful.  Imagine a
wetter climate when those streams would team with life all year.  Tell
me again how much land you have there?
Does that impoundment where you pump water to the garden remain flowing
through the heat of summer?

B

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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve
the problems of the human race"

~ Calvin Coolidge