six days later

in the past four days we have had two and six tenths inches of rainfall...and it is still raining...i had some necessary errands to run which took me out south so i took advantage of the situation to have a look around the industrial fields...i did not find any tanks of anhydrous ammonia...

i did find considerable standing water out there...

some of it draining through older and more recently established formalized channels...

and some through cuts eroded into the berms of the fields...erosion is no one's friend...ask the slash and burn horticulturalists on hillsides...and, while rain is a necessity in the land of dense yellow #2 a surfeit is as much of an issue as a lack...climatologists maintain that wet areas will become wetter and dry areas drier with climate change...so far the empirical evidence supports that...last may we received ten inches of rain in a month...something like a quarter of the yearly total precipitation...and it put a stop to corn planting hereabouts and left more than a few fallow fields that are still colonized by native plants...so far this month has seen five and a half inches in my back yard and rain is forecast for the rest of the month...or, at least, the probability of rain...may is almost here and it's raining..another stalled season?