(until June or so anyway...)
Thanking the good lord from drought country of Texas...
I made a quick trip out the the gas station to buy some survival supplies this evening (Beer, smokes, beef jerky) and I see that we are flooded!. Well as "flooded" as we've been in a very long time. Several years from my recollection.
The low spots in the pastures are full. The little gullies and ravines and the road ditches are full and flowing fast. Even the road I live on has the ditches full, and in places water flowing across the pavement draining from the one ditch to the other. If it wasn't quite so cold Erica and I would have put on our rubber ducky outfits and gone out for some puddle-stomping.
I don't know how much rain we have gotten in the last 24 hours, 2, 3, 4 inches?
The last time I saw water flowing heavily across my road, was about 3 or 4 years ago. I remember it distinctly, because I came upon a low spot in the road and met up with a great blue heron standing in the middle of the stream flowing across the road, who didn't appear happy to see me or eager to move for the car. I stopped and looked at him for a minute, and thought to myself, "stupid bird, what are you doing in the road, there's no fish in the road?"... and then his head bobbed into the water and I saw a silvery flash for a second in the air before he swallowed. "Stupid human, what are you doing thinking you know how to tell a fisher-bird how to fish?"
Anyway, tomorrow morning would be a superb day for a wildlife photographer to hit the creek and river bottoms around here, the water birds will be at full force, fishing like crazy. We have Cranes, Herons, and a wierd looking bird called (something like) Ahinga, as well as the more common water birds like ducks, geese, etc.
