Sunday Salon ~ feeling foolish

Thursday evening, I went with Jane Yelliott and her friend Tillie to an art show featuring local artists.  Here's Jane (on the right) with Linda White, a fabric artist.  Framed between them is one example of Linda's intricate needlework.  Jane and Linda are members of In-Town Gallery.  When we left the art show, Jane and Tillie and I went to Sweet Basil, a Thai restaurant.  I forgot to photograph our food, but I had delicious Pad Thai.

Another snapshot of the ornamental cherry tree in bloom, though the sidewalk is beginning to have as much pink as the tree.

Pink blossoms of the Japanese cherry tree are shredded underfoot.

The trees are turning green.  This field, which was underwater a few weeks ago, is beyond the tall trees in the photo above.

BOOKING AROUND

It's sort of nice to be reading more of my own books, rather than feeling pressured to complete library books so I can return them on time.  Okay, I admit that I picked up a handful of children's books from the library yesterday.  When I wrote about Barbara Cooney on Wednesday, I found that she considered three of her children's books to be as near as she would ever come to an autobiography.  So I checked out those three books, which you'll read about on Wednesday in my next library loot post.

FEELING FOOLISH?

It's April Fool's Day.  I think I'll be foolish today.

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Saturday Snapshot ~ after the flood

The weeds that were completely submerged are not four feet tall, as I had guessed.  They are taller than I am and probably not less than six feet tall.  That floodwater was really deep to completely cover them.  To the right, you can see where flowing water leveled weeds that were not quite so rigid, and they still haven't straightened up.

I was at the bottom of the hillside taking these photos today, and that's my apartment building at the top.  Those two satellite dishes were in some of my earlier photos, here and here.  That smaller bush in the center hides the side window of my bedroom.

The surprise left behind by the floodwaters were dozens of yellow dandelions on the hillside, like this one.  The ground still feels mushy, and I didn't venture beyond the tall-weed border.


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Let the dry land appear

As the waters recede, the weeds of the field re-appear.  The grass where I'm standing was underwater yesterday.

That tall weed in the center was totally underwater.  In Monday's first photo, it was not yet completely covered.

This hillside was about half under the water.  I'm still waiting for the rainbow after the flood, but first we need the help of a little sunshine.

Heron outside my window

The heron saw me coming and flew away. She was standing outside my bedroom window, maybe 3-4 feet tall, looking forlorn.  Did she lose her home to the flood?  (Click photo to enlarge it.)

In seconds, she was a white dot in the distance.  I hope she comes back today.

Staying inside today, to read

I think this is reason enough to snuggle under a quilt and read. We've had lots of rain -- can you tell? The creek is way over yonder beyond the tree line, and the water closer to me is usually a low-lying field.

View from my bedroom window.  And it's still raining.

View to the left, from our apartment building.

View to the right, with the bird feeder outside Donna's bedroom window.

Taken from directly outside my bedroom window. It's actually about eight to ten feet down to today's water level.  The rain is supposed to change to snow tonight, but "no significant accumulations."

This shows how far above the water we are, so I don't think we'll get wet.  But it's a lot of water!

Donna came out to take photos, too.  That's her bedroom window on the right, with my room behind the large bush, where the building juts out.  When I was at the mailboxes this afternoon, I ran into one of the staff members here, who made me laugh when she said, "You have lakefront housing without having to pay lakefront prices."  Of course, it's also our own little (temporary) lake.