Sunflowers and a Flooded Creek

I put this together last night, but decided to wait until this morning to post it because it was getting late.

We got about 1 ¼ in. rain overnight; praise the Lord! We sure need it. The creek has now risen—apparently higher than it has been in the past.

This morning, Mom informed me that there was a very upset turkey outside. I went to take a picture, and discovered the poor fellow sitting on the turkey’s usual night roost, in the rain, making pitiful sounds. Yet he wouldn’t jump off to go join the other turkeys and get under shelter! Silly thing.

This is a cone flower, I believe—isn’t it pretty?

One of my brothers has several sunflower plants growing in his garden—they are beautiful! And the bumblebees sure seem to like them!

As I said earlier, the creek is pretty high. Usually there is 2–2 ½ ft. of space between the bottom of the wooden bridge and the creek bed. Can you see the spurt of water coming out from the pipe that goes through the boys’ dam? We’ll be watering the garden with the water behind the dam.

The boys had fun showing me how deep it was, exclaiming at the cold, and then continuing to wade!

The boys have made dugouts in the clay bank here, and currently they’re working on improving the drainage, so their dugouts don’t get quite so much water trapped inside when it rains!

How has your day been?
–Esther