031923-Sparrow-Hawk

We got home from church and had a visitor

on the front lawn having lunch.

It didn't seemed to concerned with us being there.

It stayed for over an hour in the same spot.

(Notice the sunlight added to the spot.)

Then a little while later it flew up into the tree

and stayed there for a couple more hours.

031723--Powdered-Trees

 I love it after new snow storms

when the skies clear and we can see

the white trees at the top of the 

mountain

031923-Flooding continues

So the city has still not cleaned the drains

but the water from the basements 

still continue to flow

some a little

some a lot

Spring is pretty close even with 

snow predicted again this week

local farmers have had fields flooding as well

and cutting drains through to the 

street where there use to be a ditch

until some city planners decided 

there was no need for any

Looks like the need still exists in wet years

 

031623-Spring-Run-off-starts while the lawn still has snow

The snow is melting 

and basements are filling up

and then being pumped out

so the ditches fill up.

Our neighbor even had to dig

a ditch through his lawn

so it wouldn't become a lake

in his front yard .

Like the lake in his field

across the street was the source of all the water

coming from homes further south.

But the worst part of it is that our city employee

just rides around in his truck and won't stop to 

clean out the drains.

My surface well that usually sits at about 7 feet 

below ground level, except when we irrigate,

is now at three feet or less below ground level.

And the snow on my lawn has hardly melted

except under the trees where there wasn't a lot anyway.

And it hasn't even started.