Up she rises

The Brazos, that is, according to JDAllen and Bob Dunn, here and here. They ought to know, the river being in their backyards, more or less. I need to drive down off the mountain and see if Shoal Creek is rushing white-water yet.

She gets that way after all the rain we’ve been having. “Like this weather?” the fish man asked me the other day at the H-E-B. Does anybody?, I replied. He said no more. Actually, all this rain will have a good result: the Bluebonnets and other wildflowers should be really good in a few more weeks.

0 responses to “Up she rises

  1. I think it’s down about six inches, right now. Could be just the tide is out, but there was a wet ring, on the bank, while ago where you could see clean bank, and you couldn’t yesterday afternoon.

    • Funny how rivers do that. At least the big snow storm is being confined to the northeast, where it belongs.

  2. And we are still about 4 meters (about 13 feet) under the top level of Kineret. Way to go…

  3. The Sea of Galilee (Kineret) is four meters low? It’s that “sea” that always throws me. It is a lake, after all. But I thought it was spring fed.

  4. The springs, whatever is left of them, are a minor portion. Most of the water comes from the rainfall during a few weeks (a few stormy days, actually).

    And the “sea” qualifier – well, when you see our mighty Jordan “river” you will understand why Kineret is called “sea”…

  5. Boy, the myths of my youth die hard. The biblical authors were heavily into exaggeration.