Gardening: Mother Nature

Sometimes Mother Nature isn't quite so motherly. Last night storms blew through the Detroit area. And although normally I would welcome lots of rain in mid-to-late June, this was more than just a gentle shower. As you can see from the photos below, we have some flooding next to the house. We had it get pretty close to the house a couple of springs ago after large quantities of snow melted and the ground was still frozen. But I've never seen it get this high in the summer months - probably since this time the flooding was caused by a clog in the grate covering the drainage pipe. I fear many of the plants I started from seed have been lost as >60% of the area we planted is under water. I doubt it'll dry up in time to save them. Keep you fingers crossed...maybe they're stronger than I think.

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Nature: And with the rain came the ducks

Even though the weather on Sunday morning was beautiful, the afternoon brought us some scattered thundershowers here in Detroit. Jonathan has a drainage ditch next to his property and with a good rain it becomes a nice little stream. After the rains stopped, we had a mallard pair show up to take advantage of the prime swimming. Someone in the neighborhood must be feeding them...I walked outside and expected them to fly away but they walked right up on the patio towards me! I got some great closeups :) (Click on the photo to get even better feather detail.)