{"id":419,"date":"2009-09-12T16:55:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T22:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2009-09-12T16:55:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T22:55:19","slug":"water-water-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Water, water, everywhere…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…means plenty for wildlife to drink.\u00a0\u00a0 And plenty for us to rejoice over.\u00a0 And me to wade in, while going out to take pictures of this bounty.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s a view of the near meadow…you can compare it to the July 6 picture<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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I ventured out between rains to get some pictures,\u00a0 with the camera in a plastic zipper-bag and a rain jacket just in case (wise decision–the rain caught me later in the walk)\u00a0 and since it was so warm decided to wear shorts and mesh wading shoes instead of jeans and rubber boots.\u00a0 It was fun to wade in the ankle-deep water draining off the grassland, as in the near meadow.<\/p>\n

Below the dry woods, there’s a dip we call the dry woods swale–it’s almost a spring, though it also captures runoff.\u00a0\u00a0 We put a gabion at the low end to slow the runoff and hold water up there a little longer.<\/p>\n

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This picture faces sort of west, and I headed northwest to reach the north fenceline at the creek.\u00a0\u00a0 My husband had already been along the south fenceline and said the creek was out of its banks there, and the overflow channels were also full (hurray!)\u00a0 but I wanted to see the north end.\u00a0\u00a0 The north end is the only place we can get vehicles across (and only after we put rocks.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But nothing’s crossing there today:<\/p>\n

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The creek was fairly roaring (I could hear it by the time I was halfway across the west grass), and though it was falling (you can tell by the “collars” of flotsam on the bushes and small trees) it hadn’t fallen enough.<\/p>\n

At about this time–as far from the house as\u00a0 I could get–I looked back to the east and saw the next rain coming.\u00a0\u00a0 So I tucked the camera back in its plastic bag, tucked that under my arm and pulled the rain jacket over it, and hiked back.\u00a0 The rain wasn’t heavy (then–it’s been heavier again since) and was pleasant to walk in.\u00a0\u00a0 I did pause at the west end of the near meadow to photograph the streams of water that drain across it (starting up at the highway or on the other side–there’s a culvert.)\u00a0 Our various check-dams and gabions slow the water and hold some of it back, but a lot goes on through.\u00a0 The rocks piled against the fence are supplementing a gabion there–runoff used to roar through a gap gate at the corner, diggins it deeper (and undermining the corner post) but the gabion and rocks have pretty much stopped that.<\/p>\n

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Both these channels were cow-paths, deepened by erosion, when we got the place.<\/p>\n

Wonderful, wonderful rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…means plenty for wildlife to drink.\u00a0\u00a0 And plenty for us to rejoice over.\u00a0 And me to wade in, while going out to take pictures of this bounty.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s a view of the near meadow…you can compare it to the July 6 picture…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[70,69],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water","category-weather","tag-photography","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}