A surprise downpour!

At the breakfast table this morning, Anne and I saw the chance of precipitation below 20% through 10am. By the time we headed out at 5:40, it had jumped up to 78% for 7am, but the radar forecast looked like it might just miss us. Well, by the time I got to the pond, the radar showed an angry red wall fixin’ to wash over us. Happily, Anne was able to ride her bike back home before the worst hit us, and I waited out the downpour under the little entrance way on the maintenance building in the park. Thus, I did not get many pictures today.

During a little lull, I hustled over to the beer garden to watch the rain from under a bigger roof, and on the way I spotted the mallard hen hunkered down on the west lawn of the pond, just like the first day we saw her, and the male eastern bluebird appearing to be seeking cover on the side of this big branch.

When the rain finally wrapped up, and the sun threatened to poke through the clouds, I stopped by the pond again on my way home, and I found the mallard hen and her duckling back to business as usual, as if nothing had even happened.