At our house now

We had planned to get Lorelei this past weekend, but it didn't work out. But yesterday did. We met Sarah in the middle, transferred Lorelei's carseat, etc and headed home.
We were about two-thirds of the way home when she told me to take pictures of this big cloud. I took a few. They were pretty.
Then I just held the camera up, on autofocus and aimed towards her seat, or what I was hoping was her seat. The above shot is the first shot...I just love it. You might have to click it to see the gleam in her eye...
She sang a big lot of the way home...the ABC song, Itsy, Bitsy spider, even made up a version of the Mamaw Spider going up the water spout, and and I love Mamaw With All My Heart little tune.

Needless to say I will be pretty well occupied for two or three days.
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We actually had thunder and lightning about 3:00 a.m. and a little bit of rain. There is actually a mud puddle across the street! First time I have seen one of those things here in a long, long time. I don't think we got a lot, I couldn't stay awake to listen, but at least we got some.

Rainy days are here again...

I wanted to go to the woods today...I wanted to hunt some ginseng. Not to dig. Just to see. We no more than got back to where I might begin to find some and it began to rain. Not hard. But I had taken my camera with me. Luckily I had taken a big ziploc bag and could put the camera in it. We just left the woods...I didn't want to stay there till the rain really began...at least not with my camera.
So instead we took a little drive that rambled around part of Parke County. I first wanted my husband to point out the heron rookery to me. But with the leaves still on the trees, we could not see them. He showed me where it could be seen when the leaves are down so we will head back there then.
So we just rambled around, I took a few pictures. None are fantastic...for one thing it was so dark and dreary I had to set my ISO up to 1600 to be able to handhold. And even then I did not have much depth of field.
It didn't start to rain real steady till we headed home. And it has been raining ever since. Not a downpour or anything like that. Just a solid, steady rain. And it is just cool enough to make one not want to have to go outside in it.
It is a good time to snuggle and get warm and read a book. And think about how blessed we are to not have to worry about a warm, clean, dry place to rest or sleep.

Things I found today...

These are definitely best enlarged!

Even with all the rain, and there was a lot of it, I noticed the first of my Asiatic day lilies had started to bloom. Then walking out the back side walk, I noticed something laying on the concrete. On closer inspection, I discovered it was a petal from my neighbors poplar tree. So later, when my daughter and I took a walk, we picked up three or four and this is a couple of the pictures. But I regret not noticing when it bloomed--their flower is absolutely beautiful! Maybe next year I will watch for it.

...........As for the rain, it is over and we actually had sunshine this evening. But oh, it was so hot and humid when we took that walk. Later we ran to the store and saw where Feather Creek had been up out of the banks south of us about 7 or 8 blocks. I think some people had to be evacuated. It makes me so thankful to be where we are--we didn't even have trouble with water in the basement. Even if it don't rain very much, there is a spot or two just a little comes in. But as for it being a worry, it is not enough to worry about with the dehumidifier down there. And the rest of it is totally dry.

..........Terre Haute had some really major messes. They were calling for anyone with a boat to come help....and calling for neighbors in different areas to come fill sandbags. Some of the major interstates around Indiana were closed due to flooding....and even a state road that is the one my husband always took to work was flooded in one place. Something I have never seen or heard of in the 28 years I have lived here.

Edited to add: I don't know how many times I have changed the appearance of this blog today. Bare with me while I get it till I can live with it. I am also having trouble with spacing between paragraphs....I usually just skip a line but tried that numerous times and would publish it, view the blog and not space between. So I tried indenting the paragraph, only to have the indentation disappear. I finally came up with the periods at the beginning of a new paragraph, but I sure hope I don't have to continue with that.