Water, water - everywhere!

We have been dumped on with rain the past few days and yesterday Doug & I decided to check out the Clinch River. It was up 6-8 feet and the steps that we use to walk down to the river where we swim in the summer, are underwater, between the two trees to the left of Doug in the first picture. It was blustery and cold and sleeted a bit during our excursion. We drove around on a back road and then out to the highway where we were surprised at the amount of flooding along the road. Where there once was a stream that you couldn't even see, now for as far as you can see, it looks like a lake or river! One of the effects of global warming is the extremes in weather: we have been in severe drought conditions for the past few summers and now we are getting inundated!

RAIN!!!!!

I look out my window and see a blessed sight - it is raining!!!
The vegetables in the garden are giving out a collective sigh of relief. We are finally getting rain. Of course I've been watering the garden every few days with our spring water overflow, but, as my maternal grandfather said, there's nothing like rain for the garden. The hydrogen in the rain is good for it.
Last year we were terribly dry all summer, but luckily the spring kept on springing. There must be a large reservoir of water under them thar hills!

Tonight we are going to friends' house to eat and sit around the campfire and I don't care if we have to hold up umbrellas - let it rain!