Dreary week

February will be over soon. Praise be. Once we get to March, we can begin to hope that spring will come after all. The beautiful frost of last Sunday morning melted before noon. Monday kicked off a dreary week. It warmed up and rained prodigiously. The snow melted. The creeks and rivers flooded. The days were gray and foggy. It got cold. The floodwaters froze, but the water continued to drain away under the ice. As I drove to work, I passed corn fields with plates of ice frozen around the stubble eight inches above the ground. It looked cool, but I didn’t have an opportunity to get a picture.

By today, the waters had receded. The birches that looked so pretty last week looked like this today.

River Birch this morning

The maple forest has been underwater for six days.

Maples under water

On a positive note, Dorothy has at least one tail feather that is getting some length to it. I’m sure that’s good for her self-esteem.

Dorothy's tail feather