Just 36 hours ago this streambed was all dry and rocky!
And just 36 hours ago the locals could have easily driven even a low-ryder through this road that goes through the stream bed. At the moment though, I wouldn’t even try it with a big jacked up truck:
In any case, we’re very happy to be seeing the stream again (it didn’t get this big at all during last year’s rainy season – no big storms to speak of), so I thought I’d share these photos with you all today. Happy Rainy Sunday!!
We’re also expecting some heavy rain the next few days (another reason to fix the roof right now!) Maybe the next few days of rain will get the stream flowing – that would be a welcome sight again!
It was set between two huge old Live Oak trees, and maybe the contrast between their deep evergreen leaves and the dark naked branches that reach both up AND down was finally enough to wake me up. I called it the Witching Tree. Spooky, powerful, different, and lone.
I also caught another photo while out and about:
This is called Barely a Fence, for obvious reasons. It’s more of a visual barrier than anything else, because if a cow (or a rabbit for that matter) so much as breathed on it, it looks like it would just disintegrate! Ahhh, rural decay.
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When I was a kid, I used to get these urges to reorganize my bedroom, usually starting at about midnight and working steadily and in ‘uninterruptible’ mode until three in the morning. Or until I was satisfied and everything was in its new place. That mode descended upon me again this morning and I had an irrepressible urge to give this weblog a facelift and re-org.
It started when I loaded this page in my browser and felt that the Celtic Letters at the top had run their course (much as I still love the letters!) and were a bit too two-dimensional for my fickle changing tastes right now – LOL. I wanted something a little more ‘alive’ at the top so I chose some favorite photos and mixed them in with other pieces of color.
I also changed the background color to a deep teal (teal seems to be my favorite web color lately) and overhauled the left column with a new background color and reorganized link lists and such.
I’m also considering ceasing to mirror this weblog over at my account on LiveJournal. When I think of having to publish a post in two different places it makes me less want to post because of the (admittedly minor) hassle, but I haven’t decided yet about that. I wish, like facebook, there was a way of just sucking in the posts from my feed and having them show up in LiveJournal. Also SixApart has sold LiveJournal to a Russian company, which I’m sure will be fine, but it seems to be drifting away from its origins more.
So. Here is the new foxvox look, fresh for 2008. Guaranteed to last until the NEXT time I get the urge to mess with it. As always. *grin*
