Our dry summer ended abruptly during the first few days of September this year, with rain interspersed over several days that flooded the creeks and filled our lakes again here in Country Place. I snapped this photo of the Old Lake (#1) spillway on the 3rd. During the next few days I poured over seven inches of rain out of our gauge.

Critters
Country Place Critters
Over the past few weeks, two neighbors here on Oakmeadow Circle have told us about about mother foxes rearing kits under their decks, one with three and the other with four offspring. So we’ve been