A Year in the Valley

There are green shoots everywhere.  Fresh young grass is growing through the hay-like drifts of dead foliage.  There are sizeable clumps of hemlock water dropwort across the valley and blue-green brushstrokes of iris just in front of them on the right.  The line of the middle stream is visible cutting through the picture.  I will be excited to venture down to our stream.  I wonder what erosion there has been during the flooding.  I didn’t expect us to be flooded for the best part of four months, but that is what has happened apart from a couple of odd weeks.