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You would have to be in a cave to not know about all the crazy rains that this part of the country has had! Quite crazy, really! I think the weather channel has dubbed it "the Deadly Deluge". Well, we are blessed! The only way this has impacted us is all the schools have closed down, which makes for an interested week in the land of little children. HAH!
It has cleared up very nicely today and it is just gorgeous outside right now! We are forcasted for more rain the rest of the week. The news is still reporting 90 roads closed in our county....
I took advantage of the dry day to go take some picts. With all the rain, mixed with sun, the grass is SO high and it is still too wet to mow...
I think I may resort to weedeating it soon!
The trumpet trees are all just bursting with blooms and they are over 8 feet tall with all this rain we have had. They will start opening any day now!
The creek had quite a time in the "deluge" Our back yard was full of water, prob about 6 inches high at one point and the creek looked like white water rapids. (If it hadn't been so wild out there, I would have stepped out to take a picture) All the rain did a bit of re-shaping to the creek and took up some dead wood:
We have a nice new little gravely beach that wasn't there before!Our raised veggie beds really paid off, if we didn't have them, they would have been washed away! I have been slowly clearing out summer's spent crops while I wait for the garden centers to get their fall merchandise in. I am ready to plant! Good thing I hadn't yet - the rain would have drowned any seeds!
All that is left to produce anything is the pepper plant and all my basils.
Funny thing is... I pulled out all the marigolds that had died back and with all this rain, all the dropped seeds are growing. Nice fall color!
Hope none of you have damaged homes due to this rain. My boss had her entire downstairs flooded and has had to take vacation time to clean it!
Happy gardening and Stay dry!
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Sep 23, 2009 | 1:21 PM PST
Oh, I am so grateful that your damage wasn't any worse than that. I love the gravel bed! That is neat! |
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Sep 23, 2009 | 2:07 PM PST
Glad you didn't have any serious damage ! Those marigolds look like cosmos to me ! Take care now ! mitzi |
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Sep 23, 2009 | 3:36 PM PST
Was thinking about you today as I was mapping out the distance between Powder Springs and Marietta where I lived a long time ago. Only 15 miles or so. The flooding has been really bad. I do hope the area will not have a repeat any time too soon. |
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Sep 24, 2009 | 4:12 AM PST
thanks everyone! mitzi- those are a great wild variety of marigolds - they self reseed for me every year from a packet i started a couple years ago :) |
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Sep 24, 2009 | 12:23 PM PST
My heart goes out to ya'll up that way...I hear there has been lots of rain. Will be praying for all...reba |
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