Park by my house

Last summer it was over 100 degrees for over a 100 days.

This summer it has rained for 40 days and 40 nights…or something like that.

I haven’t really been counting, but there is a lot of rain and rapids in the usually dammed up Colorado River, more commonly called Town Lake. I was driving past a place where it overflowed the banks today. Some how it is stunning when nature refuses to be part of the background of everyday life.

Rain today meant reasonable temperatures. 80s instead of 100s, and life is richer for it.

I am living by the park in this picture. I am in love with the creek that run through this green belt, Blunn creek, that apparently starts in a Walmart parking lot a few miles away. By the time it reaches this point there are turtles gently drifting around below its surface and a few snakes resting on its shore.

We have been finding tiny frogs in the grasses, hip hopping about. Today the park was mowed when A. and I arrived. A chorus of squawky birds suggested a late lunch. We did see two survivor frogs though, unmowed, uneaten, and now unstepped on.