Send a postcard from Sequim
Western Washington is enduring beaucoup rain, and in the higher elevation, snow, these days - and the rivers are still able to handle it all. The Olympic Peninsula is included in the Flood Advisories coming from the Nation Weather Service. and the rain is still forecast to continue. Quite a change from the drought of the past summer and the dire 'save water' warnings.
These are the before photos.
Two years ago, in 2002, there was a full scale Flood Watch here. The Dungeness River had escaped its' banks here and there. At the Railroad Bridge Park we could see the power of the rains and snowmelt. It had tumbled out of its confines and cut over the Park access road, pouring great volumes of brown turbulent water onto the street and into the woods- completely covering the area where only a few months ago fishermen stood on the gravel riverbed to catch the salmon. Other areas of Sequim were also affected by the flooding. So far this winter of 2004 the water has stayed withing the confines of the riverbanks.
As for gardening: The bones of the gardens are showing now. It is a great time to plan the layout of the beds and do the sculpting of the yard. We've putting in a pebble path where before we destroyed a fragment of the lawn by walking on it all the time. And the water table is quite high this winter; this keeps our boots dry, even when the grass is squishy.
... and the daffodils have emerged, inch-high little spikes of green all over the flowerbeds. several of our last-year's primroses are still flowering brightly.
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