Tree Skirts

We've had some sixty degree days here recently and that resulted in the melting of nearly all our snow.

Of course that leads to flooding and our backyard is almost completely submerged.
The water is starting to recede slightly, which brought about one of my favorite sights last night.

Skirts of ice around the trees.

This happened last year, too, and I thought it was so neat. I kept planning to go outside and take some pictures, but it never happened and then one day the tree skirts were gone.

So this year, I made a point to take my camera out to the backyard and take some pictures.
I can see all of this flooding from our bathroom window and every time I do, I think about the movie "A River Runs Through It". Normally we just have a small creek, and in the summer, it's just a couple mud puddles, but right now we totally have a river.

Farther down, not on our property, there is even whitewater. Exciting, I know.

The bridge we use to cross the creek is barely visible here. It's the thing in the middle of the picture with the green grass leading up to the ice. I'm sure if I had taken pictures yesterday, the bridge would have been completely submerged.
The high(er) land visible in the middle here is what Mike uses to gauge how flooded the back yard is. If that area is under water, the water is really high. It was covered yesterday.