after 2 p.m.
Dry Creek east of Walerga Road
Wandering around the now swollen creek, it's warm and sunny right now but the storm of the past several days has raised the water level here about six feet, flooding all the low paths and leaving the rest quite muddy. Most of the trees are still bare of leaves, a few oaks have started to green and one tiny tree has pale pink blooms, as does a second slightly larger one.
The tallest grasses are a little over a foot high, grwoing green among dead growth from last year. A few birds quietly twitter and the sound of the rushing water is a constant in the background. Wildflowers have begun to appear, looking weedy up close.
Saw a pair of mallard ducks floating down the creek, letting themselves be pulled along by the current, then swimming to one side and up a little inlet, where they seemed to disappear.
