Water and Ice

We survived the flood! McGraw was in a state of emergency when the tropical storm brought its rain to central New York a couple of weeks ago. Just about every creek that could flood did flood, and by the end of the night, there was only one road left open into McGraw...and it involved going way out of our way, so that instead of five miles and eleven minutes, it took us eleven miles and twenty-five minutes to get home from Cortland. Fortunately, we had no water damage, just a dramatic evening!


Those pictures are of the creek through the middle of town the day after all the flooding. The day before the picture was taken, the water was high enough to close the road.
A couple days later, Roscoe and I took a walk down to the creek at the bottom of our property, and it was still soaring pretty high.


(I found this plant on the way back up to the top of the hill, and I have no idea what it was, but I thought it looked pretty.)


Roscoe wasn't much help in identifying it, though.


In other news, I had the chance to visit Cacie and Galen and meet Colin! We had a lovely time.


We then celebrated our first frost Saturday night. This is the view outside...


and inside...


Fortunately the world keeps turning. We even managed to make the most amazing pepperoni pizza ever! :)