Day of Rest

Serene.

Shades of Green

This spring has been so extra-glorious-beautiful. It's beautorious! It's gloriful!

This a.m.'s sunrise.

Inside. Twinkle lights. :-)

Yesterday, I ventured over the mountain thru Fort Valley into Woodstock.

On top of the mountain. AWESOME!!!

Pioneer Sister & I went to the Fibersmyth shop. All things fiber-and-yarny. They also have a sweet restaurant with so many things I could eat. Usually it's a challenge eating out when you're gluten free. But you could order any sangwich as a salad. With real greens. How cool is that?! Sometimes I'm stuck staring at the menu saying, "Um. I'll have the wilted iceberg lettuce with the anemic-hothouse-tomatoes-prolly-genetically-modified. No dressing, thanks." Bleh. Pioneer Sister and I had a big pot of proper tea. After lunch, we popped into the shop. The owner, British Elizabeth, sat behind her desk clicky-clacking away with knitting needles as we chatted. Can't wait to take Mum!

I told Elizabeth that her shop was Yarn Pornography. ;-)

Then it was back down the mountain & thru the forest:

Ended with tea with Mum & her famous omelets.

Overall Beach, a 2-minute boat ride or 50 minutes by car to get home.

Delicious day. :-)

More Flood Photos

Yesterday's sunrise. :-)

Look!

A beaver!

What a wacky winter! Blizzard . . . flood . . . locusts & pestilence next? Hahahaha

FLOOD

Usually I go for a walk to my post box in the afternoon. Something prompted me to walk down in the morning yesterday . . . we had a tremendous amount of rain last night. It poured. The water was a bit high:

See? Overall Beach is flooded.

Overall Creek, rushing into the river. It sounded like rapids!
Acting like a real river.

I got to my postbox--jackpot! Birthday cards--YAY, me! A couple hours later, I was tippy-tapping away at the computer, and Millie is staring out the window. Periodically, she gives a woof.


Sometimes she barks at cars or airplanes. Not this time. Yesterday, she was barking at the river. I stood behind her and you could see the movement of the river. Every time a tree or something floated by, she barked. Then Maggie joined her:

Like TV for dogs.

The river had risen a bit so I walked down . . .

Well this puts a damper on going into town today!

You can't see them, but in the photo below, across the river, 2 people on a 4-wheeler had gone along side the river down a ways. They just barely made it back; in that 10 minutes, the road had already been covered by water. That's how fast the water was rising.

So I went back to the house. And then! More woofing and I looked out the window and it seemed that there were more trees floating even faster down stream. Was that a refrigerator I just saw? So I walked back down to the river:

WOW!

Neighbor Dave at a safe distance.

Definitely not going anywhere!

Day of Rest: Wintery River

This was a shot I took on my way out yesterday. The water is a delicious blue in this very-cold weather.It is SO COLD! But toasty-warm in my little river house. Millie is snoring by the fire, and I have gluten-free oatmeal bubbling in the double boiler--PROPER porridge! I am going to spend the afternoon in the kitchen doing food prep for the week. Will do a blog post on how I do easy-peasy meals. Back tomorrow for M&M Monday.

2003 Flood

Neighbor Dave sent me these really cool photos of the last BIG flood. Where the water meets the grass is where the road is. Sorta.

Mailboxes!

Here they are normally; different angle.

River Flood

We had a lot of rain. The river has flooded a bit. It looks rather underwhelming from my front porch:

Oh sure, the river's all brown and whatnot. But it doesn't look too terribly spectacular. Neighbor Dave called yesterday a.m. & said that the river had crested & it looked like it was going down. So I grabbed my camera and ran down to the river. Like it's going to go back to normal in 2 minutes?

So here you go:

River on left, road 3 feet on right.

The last flood, the river reached the mailboxes, but the water was about a foot below. They survived, which doesn't surprise me if Neighbor Dave had anything to do with the construction. Apparently they're set in concrete.

Mine's the last on the left with the duct tape.

This is where Mum got into trouble during the last flood . . .

. . . stay tuned . . . .

Perspective

This is shot from across my road. From this point on the bridge, it takes 45 minutes to drive to my house. We call the mini-peninsula jutting out, "Overall Beach."

Here it is from the other side of the river at a different angle:

Would you know they were the same place just by the photos? Prolly not.

Here's another view. You can see my driveway up the hill:

Would you know it's the same road?

Things look much clearer from a different perspective. Pulling back to a wider angle helps you to see the road you're heading down. Conversely, walking the road, gives a concrete experience of it. It's all perpective.

Day of Rest

"Gratitude is the power cord to the universe. Plug it in and enjoy the gifts you are bound to receive." ~Tony Robbins, tweet