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. 

Nine Mile Canyon-Utah-Natural Rock Formations

I often think that mother nature 

does a pretty cool job of decorating 

landscapes with rocks and plants.

Below are the images that I took also in 

the canyon while traveling through it.

I wonder if this is from bats?

Faces often appear in these pieces of art.

A pigs snout?

Side profile of a tight lipped face?

Another visitor (from Texas) loved 

to photograph like I do and asked if 

I had taken a picture of the Mummy Rock?

I said that I hadn't seen one labeled like that 

and didn't know what he was referring to so 

then he showed me a picture of it and I 

was able to quickly scroll through my images

and find the same rock formation that he was asking about.

I didn't see the mummy until he asked me if 

I had photographed it and then looking at it I could see why he 

referred to it with that name.

Do you agree?

A dog?

Damage from the flood at the Great Hunt 

and Big Buffalo panels.

It was fairly significant.

More of natures color schemes

I have recently been studying a work 

that says these canyons were not created over 

billions of years of erosion but rather a flood

that happened in a rather short amount of time 

then added to with further erosion 

over the last few thousand years not millions of years.

I now look at these canyons in a whole different 

perspective.

So what did happen to make

the great lake that covered a lot of Utah 

disappear and could these canyons all have been 

carved in a matter of a few minutes of hours?

Or did it have anything to do with the flood that 

covered the earth 

in Noah's time.

Think about it!