Happy Friday The 13th.  Click on the above image and it will give you a 1200 pixel wide panorama of the duck pond as it looked yesterday.  For the most part all the water is gone.  There is a small layer of water on the far West side of the pond but even that is less than 2 or 3 inches deep.  It is very sad.

The Geese in this image and the one below are the new families that gave birth this Spring.  The young ones are not quite ready to fly for any distance so they continue to stay at the pond.

The marsh across the highway is also bone dry and there are a couple of geese families there as well.   I traveled to Monticello, Iowa today on highway 64.  There is a marsh over by Baldwin, Iowa and it is mostly dried up as well.  Everything is so dry and brown.

I was talking with someone today who said that this will be worse than the bad drought of the 80s.  I know that just from looking at the corn on the way to and from work that it is going to be a bad crop this year.

So we will persevere and next year there may be too much water.  There are cycles and this is just another one.   That’s all I have for today.  Hope you enjoy your Friday and the up coming weekend.

Thanks for stopping by.  Be careful.