We have been in this drought for some time now, it seems like years, because it has been. For about the last 5 years or so we just have not had any steady rain at all. The best evidence of the drought, at least on our property, is our pond. This is basically a 2 acre pond that is rain fed. From the feet shot you can see it is dry as the Arizona desert. From the shot of the pond area, almost the entire view of the photo should be under water, in fact I am basically standing where the water should be. Anyway, I know it’s not the most photographic Friday Feet but it’s what this summer is turning out to be like on our side of the world. We could really use an active hurricane season where we get some nice slow moving weak storms over and over again. I know the fish shot is kind of gross so I left you with my moms yellow flowers blooming like mad in this 100* weather.
Coming up soon, some uber cute shots of my nephews in their Chick-fil-a cow costume for their annual photo contest. It was quite something to shoot people in cow costumes in 100* weather. Have a good weekend.
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Overflow photos: Receiving an enormous amount of rain from this storm, pond is flowing over its banks at a huge rate, but at least its 38* outside and not 31*.
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Taken during heavy gusts and rain out the back door of our house.
Tropical Storm Fay made its way across our corner of Alabama yesterday and last night, bringing some great rain to a drought area. Tornado warning after warning came and went, but the most we got here is a good solid day of soaking and some wind. A great day to stay inside and watch the weather.
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The water in the pond is gone. The fish are easy pickings for the birds these days and the plants are all struggling too. We have been in this drought all spring (and really going back into the winter) and the pond has just slowly gone away. Here is what it looks like now.
This pond at one time was filled to the brim, which would make the entire pond about 10-15 feet deep in the middle, now you can practically walk across the pond. You can just see the pipe going into the pond on the right. That was completely under water and unseen last year and the total volume of water this little pond holds is enough to be visible on Google Earth, but not right now.
This summer we are having to go around and water individual trees to keep them alive. A high pressure system remains over the southern part of the United States and just will not give up any ground. So, we are left with these scortching clear skies every day. No clouds, no rain, no humidity (which is really strange for the south in the summer), just a clear blue hot sky. Eventually it will have to start raining again, but it doesn’t look like it will happen for a while.
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This weekend Scott, Christopher, and Larry rented a trencher and did lots of work at the farm. One of the projects they tackled was constructing a fountain and pulling it into the middle of the pond so that it could be gradually filled by our new well. Here is the pond prior to filling.
They dug a trench from our well up and over the embankment to the pond. Then they laid lots of pipe and constructed the tacky, but functional fountain you see below.
Trench from well to pond
Trench from well to future garden site.
Scott and his plumbing handiwork
Installing the fountain
Isn’t it lovely?
Larry is so proud
