Wildflowers, even along the creek where it is always moist, are toward the end of their
blooming season as our nights are cooling off. Some of the places I expected to find flowers, they were already gone or this year chose to not bloom there. It's usually a hit or miss experience as they are found in small places, require looking, not e
asy to see like fields of flowers can be in the spring.The ones on the stump were as though a large bouquet had been planted in the middle of the stream. The reflections were almost perfect. It is beside a small hole about the right size for children to swim with water a bit warmer than th
e rest of the creek.The violet looking flowers were generally growing out of stumps one place or another. The gift of one thing dying is life for others as th
e creek is full of downed trees, which making wading it sometimes challenging but provide valuable creek habitat.Some of these photos might not be of native wildflowers from this area but instead flowers planted by the birds, rodents and insects.
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I clicked on the pictures to get a closer look at these gems. This is an important article not just something to be a relief from the world situation. Too many creeks are abused by people who build along them. They cut down the vegetation or allow live stock to crush it.
Yesterday I received an Art About Agriculture juried exhibit prospectus. I want to encourage you to submit your photos so more people can see the beauty in your farming practices.
Those are very pretty pictures. I am curious, why is the stump in the creek? Did the creek move over to where the tree was growing originally? Did there used to be a small island that had the tree growing on it and now the island is gone. Is the creek damned up to make the swimming hole? It is just something I have not noticed before.
Glad you liked the photos and this creek is constantly changing its course. We have one area that we call the thumb which was originally on the other side of its banks. The original owners have poured heavy rock into a few places to preserve the existing bank. That trunk has been there a long time; so no way to know when the tree went down, whether the changing water killed it or whether it was one that was blown down by a windstorm. I have been walking on the road and heard trees go down along the bank. It makes you quite cautious when you are wading up it-- always listening.
oh and no dams except the ones downed trees create naturally and those get moved by winter storms
Thanks for the follow up info. These are the odd questions that I ponder when I see things like that.
I wish the state of our creek here is remotely close to what you guys have.
We'd be lucky to see if its even clear, and to have wild flowers growing around them, would be insanely miraculous.
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