Even though we live in drought much of the time, every year or so we get enough rain that our homestead becomes waterfront property. Of course, by the time the thunderstorms pass through and we get out to the flood plain, there's not much left of it ...
We were fortunate this time around that we didn't get 7 inches, as we did during the Halloween 2013 flooding. Even so, 4.3 inches of rain is enough to fill a copper dye pot ...
freshen up the windfall lichens ...
beat down the "bad grasses" and leave the little bluestem standing tall ...
wash all the acorns down the driveway ...
where they can be gathered along with the oak galls ...
and douse the burn pit, readying it for another day ...
There's so much promise in the land, just waiting for the seeds to fall ...
