The flooding coninues in the nations heartland, Rivers are over their banks, and more water is being let out of Saylorville Resevoir to prevent  the Dam giving way. We hav3e had more severe weather and there are more thundertorms  on the way.

The city of Des Moines closed down all major bridges downtown last eveing, and there is flooding across several  major thouroughfares into the downtown area. The rivers are powerful, currents raging, farm fields washed out,threatening buildings. All that water makes for some breutiful photo ops none the less.

Flooding Update:   

The flooding in Des Moines has continued to get much worse, A new Levy  build in 93 after the last big floods has broken, Many people in the  lower areas of the city are evacuated from their homes.

We here are fortunate to live in a  small town located up on a hill, I work on the close end of the city ,so I don't have to travel across many of the closed roads. My thoughts go out to those not so lucky,and we all pray for a cease in riany weather so the water can  go back down.There will be alot of cleanup, and many of the fields recently planted may not survive. On te way home today one of the fields flooded on my way home had receded, leaving large sections of muddy ground.

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There is romantic feeling one gets when they see a full blooming magnolia tree.

These trees are marginal here in the midwest, The trees grow,but the blooms are rare, often snapped by late frosts,we may see bloom like this perhaps once every three years. Soon, with spring storms the petals will fall,leaving us again for a few more years.

Spent the day with a local flickr friend, Saw alot of feathered wildlife, It was a lovely spring day that turned off overcast. The low light made it difficult to stop action. Realized how lacking in practice I am at flight images.Still thes are the best geese, heron flight images I have ever gotten, I bow to the master, Anni/Bored Barb.LOL

Came home and enjoyed a couple movies Hubby rented earlier, I enjoyed I am legend,but of course I always enjoy Will Smith  ,he has such a fine spirit (Bod aint bad either huh ladies? LOl ) I will be  making my annual journey to the grand opening at the  nurseries, but don't have alot on my list this year. Have way too much garden cleanup to do anyway.

There was the co workers last night, where I ordered Scooby snacks from Northern Lights Pizza to celebrate.

Then there is the obligatory sunset, shot on a "photo" break at work when I noticed the colors and light through the glass door and just had to take a minute to go out and shoot a pot of daffodils I had purchased against the waning light.

And of course,It killed me to walk by these vivid crocus blooms on my way to the car each afternoon, so today after waking from my nap I finally spent a few minute laying in the spring grass to shoot these photos.These are just a sampling of this weeks photos.April showers de tomorrow,who knows what opportunities will arrise.

And then this abstract macro taken with a little help from Hubby, who noticed I was battling the breeze and held a shovel beside the flowers to block the breeze, Thanks Hunny.

And I find myself at the Roseman bridge for an attempt at long exposures of the bridge.Nobody around but me and a deer crossing the river.Unfortunately he didn't stand still long enough  to capture his photo.