Month: October 2022

It’s gone. The Blue Wren Bench is simply gone. There’s two big holes left in the ground where it was. I can’t believe it. The flood took the whole thing. I’ve looked downstream on the banks for quite a distance and I can’t see it anywhere. This side of the river has been so much […]

At Private Bench the duckling family is here and the ducklings have grown. I saw them today. There’s five of them left. They’re quite big now. They swam quickly across the river.

It is a glorious day down at the Big Old Tree. It is sunny and beautiful. There’s birds everywhere. We just saw an Azure Kingfisher fly by really close. The flood has clearly been the whole way through here, and you can see a very defined line between where the water went up to. Everything […]

And just like that the water drops and the whole Bench is back and the walking path is back. You wouldn’t know that it all happened except for the grass is flattened and muddy, and there’s debris stuck to the trees. This tree is by the path and the debris is at my shoulder height. […]

The bench is coming back slowly. I do miss sitting on it.

Northern Bench is just emerging out of the floodwaters. Across the other side, I can see the top of Other Side Bench as well. As the waters gone down a little bit, it’s starting to reveal all the debris that’s been washed down in the flood and gotten stuck on all the trees.

This is amazing. I didn’t come down to this end of the river last year when it flooded, so I haven’t seen it like this. The flood looks even more amazing at this end because the river is narrower up here. When the river burst its banks, it just completely spread. I can’t get anywhere […]

Well, it’s official. The river has flooded, and it is higher than the highest flood we saw last spring. It’s so impressive. All of the Benches are under the water. There is nothing quite like the power of nature.

Last night and today it has rained constantly. There’s frogs in the puddle behind my back fence once again. There’s been big floods in many parts of the state, and I can’t wait to go down and check the river tomorrow morning. Everything here is wet. There’s water droplets everywhere and the rain is still […]

This photo captured the moment for me. A big storm is coming. They are forecasting a big rain event for tomorrow and flood warnings have been issued. It’s warm, humid and still out here. The clouds are low, dark and ominous. A flock of ibis’ passed silently overhead, across the only brighter patch in the […]