More Spring-like precipitation

We have had a couple of good spring showers this week, which affected the water height. On May 23, the river gage went from 2.52' to 3.20'. On May 25 the water gauge was 2.53' before the precipitation, and went to a high of 2.95' on May 26, 2009.

Update on seedlings and blooming specimens

Here are pictures of blooming 2-year old specimens (planted April 15, 2007) as well as an update on the new witch hazel seedlings (planted March 21, 2009) . Enjoy.

This is the first year the false indigo plants have bloomed. The color is a deep purple and crimson red. This is a Amorpha fruticosa L. desert false indigo. Here is the missouriplants.com website which includes some dramatic photos of the false indigo bloom. [click on photograph for close-up]





Approximately half of the blackberry plants were in full bloom this week.










The witch hazel seedlings are all doing great. Today was the first day that they have needed watering since planting them on March 21, 2009. Here is a link to more information about the witch hazel tree, Hamamelis virginiana.

Spring Rain

We have been fortunate, so far, that the spring rain has been intermittent and has not caused flooding at the Spring River La Russell Access Point. Below are the river water depth readings during and after the April 19, May 1, 14 and 16th precipitation events.

The water depth increased from 2.6' on April 19, 2009 at 12:00 midnight to 3.52' on April 20, 2009, 2:15am. [Double click on graphs for larger view]





The water depth increased from 2.45' on April 30, 2009, 8:00pm to 4.13' on Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 1:45am.




The water depth reached highs of 3.94' on May 14 and 4.67' on May 16th.