So every winter the creek floods and a few times a year is turns our lower field into a giant lake. Here are some pictures of the field before it flooded.

And here are a few pictures of the field as the water was rising. This flooding was very minor compared to some of the water levels we have seen, but it is always mesmerizing to me to watch the water slowly rise into the field.

You can see in the above pictures the water rising in what we call the “drainage”, the lowest area in the center of the field. In really bad rainstorms, the “drainage” will just keep getting wider and wider, until the creek is flowing straight over the entire field, from left to right. But this time, relatively mild, thank goodness.

Cheers from the farm,

Michael