Melting snow, thawing ice, and roughly 35mm of rain since yesterday morning have made for some soggy fields. Fortunately, planting season is still some weeks off.

Melting snow, thawing ice, and roughly 35mm of rain since yesterday morning have made for some soggy fields. Fortunately, planting season is still some weeks off.




This patch of ice caught my eye, looking like a buffalo head, or an alien, or vaguely like a longhorn steers’ head and horns if you are a previouslytexan.

During a winter thaw, a lot of water and ice collect in the fields. The snowmelt from the past two weeks’ snowfall plus the ~15mm of rain that fell is a lot of water to get rid of, it’s too cold to evaporate quickly, and our flat topography is not conducive to quick runoff.