Thanks to yesterday's brilliant sunshine and warm temperatures, I now live streamside. The pictures show what is normally dry lawn and garden areas. Our mobile home is 1/4 mile from the top of a hill, and this is the runoff from melting snow, that has come from the fields above, and down the driveway.
This picture shows the same area as above, in the afternoon. no snow, and water covering the whole area. Note the piles of small stones and gravel- that belong in the driveway- quite a distance above this area. The driveway is 1/4 mile long, from the road at the top of the hill. We are quite secluded, and I love that.
As you can see, our whole property is on a slope. This picture shows where the water from the first photo was headed. In the lower right corner, there is the end of a flower bed.
This shows the end of the garden as the new stream enters it. There are even piles of gravel stones from the driveway all the way down there and even farther down the stream. In past years, any runoff would run in front of this section of the garden. (after installing this garden, I realized a couple years later, that the runoff water nanturaly wanted to go right through the middle of the whole garden, so I made a dry stream bed through the length to accomodate it)
My yard and gardens are usually inspiration for my quilting, but browns don't seem to be in "my" color palette, so I don't think this will come out in a quilt, unless I decide to change the water to a beautiful blue babbling brook, flowing through blooming gardens, mmm……… maybe and idea there? Though, I do love the shadows that the tree branches cast on the snow. Well, I better get away from this computer, and get to my studio, and to work.
I am a former textile artist and new pattern designer with a degree in horticulture, wishing to share my love of nature, flowers and gardens with everyone through my photos, sunprinted fabrics, and now pattern designs. Chronic Lyme Disease has caused major changes to the direction my life. I have to limit the amount of time spent digging in my gardens, and quilting has become more difficult. I discovered pattern design as a way to get art back into my life. I now use my gardens and photos to inspire designs that can be used on fabrics and print on demand items.
I had to check out your location…our snow is leaving at about the same pace as yours is. But we are further north. I've never liked it when the snow leaves too early since that prolongs the mud season and the cold, freeze, thaw cycle of the days tends to do damage to the plant roots. We had very little snow cover this winter, so I'm wondering what plants may have frozen too much to survive. After a very mild early winter, we had a bitter cold spell that drove the frost deep into the ground, freezing our septic mound, and also many other people's systems as well. I'm looking forward to planting flowers. But this time of year, well, quilting is on my mind.