So, I went down to see how this old friend looked in the current condition.
Pretty amazing.
I remember when we were younger and would make the drive, hearing my parents explain what that long high hill was that stretched as far as the eye could see along the Arkansas side of the river. They said it was to stop the river. Which made no sense to me, since the river was a couple of miles away. But as you can see in the photo above, the river made it to the levee. Just amazing. I'll never drive by that levee again without remembering seeing the water up this high.
I don't know if all the rain we got earlier, given that it was accompanied by so much wind, actually made the flowers prettier or stronger this year or weakened them, but they sure are pretty.
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Thanks for these pictures, Sheila. Glad to see you posting again. I just finished a good book last night where a flooding river plays a role. Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry. It's now in my top ten--maybe top five--books I've read.
Hey, Brent.
I'm actually having problems getting the blog to publish. (I can't correct, either, thus the "now" instead of "know" in the last paragraph.) I don't know what the deal is....
I'll have to look up that book.
That water looks fat!
We've had a dry spring, some of the flowers are great, but everything seems to have come out at once, like a more southern spring.
Blogger's acting weird lately.
WV 'pumberbi'. Don't know what it sounds like, I just rather like it!
Heehee, I like "pumberbi," too. It is funny what combinations come up from time to time. I think we should find a definition for pumberbi.
As for Blogger, I tried again last night to make corrections and kept getting "javascript void 0" and couldn't do a thing.
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