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2931. Ronski - 4/15/2005 3:44:42 AM Iceland poppy, and friend:
 2932. Ronski - 4/15/2005 3:56:37 AM Cineraria:
 2933. Magoseph - 4/15/2005 6:05:50 AM Ronski, your flower pictures are very beautiful. 2934. ronski - 4/15/2005 3:30:30 PM Thanks. 2935. ronski - 4/15/2005 4:21:27 PM A hellebore has bloomed:
2936. ronski - 4/15/2005 10:09:41 PM "I am half sick of shadows," said
The Lady of Shallot.
 2937. alistairConnor - 4/16/2005 12:10:36 PM Mostly sleet yesterday : I thought we'd be flirting with the snowline all weekend. But at breakfast :
... and it's still falling thick and fast. I've never seen so much in April. 2938. Ronski - 4/16/2005 3:22:29 PM What elevation are you? 2939. alistairConnor - 4/16/2005 4:26:16 PM About 700 metres.
It's still falling steadily, but not sticking to the trees, and not getting any thicker because it's melting as it goes.
There's a fair heap in front of the door here where it slides off the solar panels.
It won't help the flowers grow, but it won't really harm them like a hard frost would. 2940. Ronski - 4/17/2005 4:23:07 AM Primula polyanthus, in my Mom's backyard:
 2941. Ronski - 4/17/2005 4:24:42 AM Next to it, a blue one:
 2942. alistairConnor - 4/17/2005 12:16:57 PM Primevères! We have them wild, but they are plain yellow. 2943. Ronski - 4/17/2005 2:33:27 PM Trillium luteum, in bud:
 2944. Ronski - 4/17/2005 2:54:52 PM Pink hyacinth, at Mom's:
 2945. thoughtful - 4/18/2005 1:22:46 PM Ronski, great shots. I love trillium...please post a shot when it's blooming. 2946. wabbit - 4/18/2005 2:02:51 PM 
We're done with snow for the season, but the snowmelt and the recent rain did some damage. I have a small stream running along the back edge of my yard and during the big rain of about 2 weeks ago, the dam upstream broke. I wasn't here at the time, unfortunately, but I'm sure it was quite something. Briscoe Lake is pretty much mud now, not what you'd call a lake anymore. Who knew it was so shallow? I gather the rush of water woke people up at about 2am, when this happened. Some stuff I had stored behind my tractor shed ended up a few hundred yards away, stuck in the treeline between my yard and my neighbor, and I now have a few thousand rocks in the yard that used to be on the streambed. Also, my large burn pile is gone. Not a twig left behind. So much for needing to burn this year. A couple trees came down, too. Unfortunately, I lost a lot of flowers as well. I had daffodils and irises along the stream bank, but that part of the bank is gone and the stream is a bit wider. Luckily my house sits just a few feet above the high water point and escaped any damage.
2947. thoughtful - 4/18/2005 2:07:44 PM Wow! That's something! Thank goodness your house wasn't damaged. But man what a mess. 2948. wabbit - 4/18/2005 2:41:10 PM It's pretty impressive, so long as you don't have to clear the mud, stones and debris out of your yard. A couple rowboats ended up far from home, along with one dock that came loose and is now next to the street. We were lucky.
The man who built the dam years ago doesn't even live on the "lake", so is unlikely to rebuild it, but the people with lakefront property will probably chip in to get it done.
Meanwhile, there is talk about cutting the tops of some of the bigger stumps down so they won't snag on boats when the lake is resurrected. So long as they don't screw up the fishing, they'll do it while the lake is gone. I wish they'd do some dredging, I could use the topsoil! 2949. thoughtful - 4/18/2005 2:54:04 PM If it were our area, it'd be unlikely to be redone, certainly any time soon. Our area is heavy duty into wetlands and anything like even raking your own leaves into your own backyard if it's a wetlands area can yield threats of arrests and fines. 2950. wabbit - 4/18/2005 3:02:16 PM We have the same thing here, but the lake was created before those regulations were established, so rebuilding the dam would probably be grandfathered.
I don't understand some of the wetlands enforcement. Up the street from my parents is a little house with a corner lot that they can't sell because the land next to the house, on the corner and with roadways on two sides, is considered wetlands. It is wet land, for sure, but what is the point in not allowing these people to clear some of the trees off of what can't be even 1/4 acre with 1" of water in some places? There aren't any exotic flowers or creatures living there, the place has been checked. It pretty much dries up in the summer anyway; what make that yard 'wetlands' is beyond me.
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