On Top of the Mountains

[bassin_bug]

We have all been battling rainstorms for so long I thought I would share what we have seen since they stopped.

While driving around I have been looking at flowers, shrubbery, and trees and all the changes the rain has brought. The flowers are larger and the colors are more brilliant that I've ever seen. The shrubbery and trees are greener and just so beautiful and gardens are growing so fast it looks like the plants are jumping inches overnight.

Last Wednesday, Sweetie Pie and two of his friends flew over the mountains in a helicopter so they could get a closer look at the mountain tops. He said they are more beautiful this year than he ever remembers. Most of the time the summits look dry and thirsty even after rain because the water runs off so quickly but not now. The rivers and lakes are still up a bit but they just add to all the beauty of nature. He said he saw things too beautiful to describe and a camera couldn't begin to capture it all. Even through the flooding there were wonderful thing being born out of the adversity.

[DJD]

I agree and thats what I love about Kentucky. You can find places in the mountains that you can swear you were one of the few who have ever seen it especially after the rains when the creeks are full, things just feel healthy and new.

[kygorski]

Untill you see what that creek deposited into the lakes and rivers. Road side dumps are something I very seldom saw till we moved here.Its not tourists doing it. I live on a road to no where a tourist would be interested in traveling, but the slack jawed mouth breathers do travel it, and litter.

[DJD]

Your right about the trash. I walked a local creek through the summer several years ago and thought it was pretty and felt secluded. Once the leaves fell later in the year I got the disappointing trash slide views. Very disapointing!