The pines here are dying from pine beetles. I put some pictures up on
my site a while back detailing the damage.
We got 3+ inches of rain today, and it is still raining hard. It is
supposed to continue to rain throughout the night to accumulate maybe
another inch or so.
I spent a lot of time out in the rain today. There is really something
to that, playing in the rain....it makes you feel alive, and like a
drug, it makes you forget your problems...I highly recommend it.
I was so sickly as a kid that my mother would never allow me to do that.
Today, I was so soaking wet that I made up for all 17 years of
deprivation in one shot. Of course, I called it creek cleaning, and it
was an important job because we don't want the culvert to become blocked
again.. ;) And of course, it has become such an infrequent event that I
*had* to take pictures! It is good to walk around and look at the land
to see everything under these conditions. Subtle elevation changes
become glaringly obvious with water flowing across, and you can observe
how water runs off, erosion issues, low areas that could be used for
growing rice<g>, new springs, etc. I think finding good springs is
important-you never know when you will need to find water, for yourself
or your animals.
Tomorrow we have a chance of snow. I see that up in NE, you already
have ice and snow. (sorry)
I doubt it will snow-it has been way too warm-60 degrees today, but I do
think that things are likely to freeze over tomorrow night when the low
temps drop into the upper twenties. There's no school tomorrow in our
county due to so many roads being flooded..like I said in an earlier
post, this county is mostly a vast flood plain. Odd weather for January.
Bev
Sage Austin | Eureka! Design wrote:
Very pretty creek! I like your favorite pic, too. We had some gentle
rain last night. We are still in extreme drought, just a notch away
from exceptional drought. My friends in Austin reported the pines
east of them are all dying. Looks like Lost Pines State Park may soon
become No Pines State Park.--Sage
--
"The world is my country, all mankind are my
brethren, and to do good is my religion."
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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