Spring has finally 'sprang', in all it's glory. This week has been interesting in that we've just had over 4" of rain in less than a day, and our pond shows it. Here's the usual starting view from our deck:
Two changes from last week: first, the tree canopy has filled in so the ridge line across the pond is barely visible; and second, the pond itself is very murky from all the the sediment that has washed in from the rain.
The view of the fire pit hasn't changed much from last week. A bit more green perhaps, but that's about it. I'm somewhat surprised that there hasn't been much erosion, but the leaf bed throughout the forest we have is so thick that the water can't move that fast. There has been some erosion on the path further down to the pond, but the mulch that remains and the general 'windiness' of the path itself has kept that to a minimum.
The house looks pretty much the same, a little darker perhaps as the leaves begin to turn to their normal color.
Two pond views this week. This first one is of the dock/dam area, showing how dramatically the water has risen from the rain. It's about 8" higher than normal - that dark band to the right of the dock along the dam is where the water is above the normal vegetation that grows to the water's edge. The water is now brown from all the sediment that has washed in; it'll take a week or so before it sinks to the bottom and the pond returns to its normal green color.
Here's the more normal view taken from across the pond. I backed off a ways from the usual view to show that the shoreline on that side is now more swamp than shore. It's actually more than a foot above the water level, but the ground is so saturated that the water has no place to go.
Our pond is actually spring-fed, and the water table is so high right now that the spring that feeds it is 'poking through' into a number of what are normally dry creeks. This is one of them.
As Porky Pig would say, "Th - tha - that's all, folks". At least for now. See you again in the fall.
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