April Showers...come on May flowers!

The entire time we've lived at our house (this is our 3rd May, hard to believe!) our woods have looked like this.



It's been an excellent source of dirt for our garden in the spring and wood for our fireplace in the winter. The floor is covered with leaves that crunch under foot and rocks and sticks everywhere. A couple of weeks ago, we got some rain. Some rain, indeed. To the tune of 7 to 8 inches in the span of a couple of days following a week of rain almost every day. One Saturday morning following an evening of rain, Michael and I walked outside and hear something that sounded like wind in the trees. We noticed that there was actually NOT wind, but water! Rushing water! We headed down to the woods to see what we could see.



Turn your head sideways and see what we saw...(sorry I forgot to "flip" the picture!)

To put this in perspective, there has NEVER (in our time here) ever even been a little water here. There was a creek bed of rocks as evidence that there had been water at some time, but since the last two years have been so drought-ish, we hadn't seen any. (Now you can turn your head back the right way.) Look how green everything is! We felt like we were in the rain forest. There were plants growing and growing quickly where we had only ever seen leaves...dead, brown ones at that.

Here's some more water. Michael asked me if I thought I could jump across the stream. Um...YEAH! I mean I do P90X Plyometrics! So here's the action shot!

BTW, OF COURSE, I made it across!!

Lots and lots of green!!! And even a waterfall!

The awesome thing of it all was that the week before, mom and dad had come for Easter and mom and I planted our garden. Guess who LOVES all the rain and cool weather.....

Our tomatoes...

basil, thyme, oregano, cilantro, dill...

cauliflower, squash, asparagus, peppers, peanut, snap peas, watermelon and cantelope. And all the weeds surrounding them!

The rain has since left and taken the cooler weather with it! Bummer! Our plants are in shock I think. I'm really hoping they are still around after we're gone all week next week to Disneyworld! Come on May flowers!