The Creek

Today the creek has more water than this in it because it rained last night. East Texas is still having a drought. Of course, to a former Arizonan an inch of rain overnight doesn't seem like a drought. But we begin to worry when we go 5 or 6 days without any rainfall. We don't want to see the creek dry up. Our neighbor has lived in his house for 34 years and he says only twice in all that time did the creek become almost dry. And then there were the years when it overflowed its banks. One day in Feb. or March Joel went down to look at the creek and there was a blue heron in the creek bed. They are very large birds - he said it was quite a sight watching that bird fight his way through the tree branches to take off.