Or at least it WAS a pond.....
THIS is how dry it is here...our pond has completely dried up now - the bees are flying around it desperately trying to find moisture there. We have now had to start giving them a water supply apart from their syrup - they normally just take water from the pond but now that is not there we have to provide water.
They are forecasting a much milder winter than normal - but we NEED snow this year - without a lot of snow our wells are going to be in trouble next year. We are back with a fire ban in our county again because of how dry it is - and if we don't get moisture through the Fall, Winter and Spring - then next Summer will be even worse.
We have never seen our pond like this before. Perhaps it has been like this before we moved here but not since we moved here. So sad - where are the frogs?????
Can you see the darkest brown GRASS - not the mud or the first layer of dark grass, but the TOP layer of dark grasses - well THAT is where the water level normally is!!!!!! Shocking!!!!! We normally have fish in this pond all summer to keep the mosquito larvae at bay....It is normally full of frogs and all kinds of wildlife - the deer and moose normally come here to drink in the early mornings. The dogs love to swim in it. It is a haven for dragonflies in the evenings.....and now it is gone!
