Here you see yesterday morning’s sunlight passing pleasantly through a stand of spruce and fir trees. The trees, their trunks wet to the touch, seem proud at having survived the night’s sheeting rain and turbulent winds; the soaked sphagnum moss at their feet, now fully quenched, gives thanks of the vibrant kind.
Our drought conditions have disappeared, at least temporarily. Yesterday’s U.S. Drought Monitor reports that Maine’s water levels are back to normal, except for a relatively tiny spot (0.15%) of abnormal dryness at the tip of our Southeast border, in the Kittery area:
Several days of torrential rains have replenished groundwater and given wooded brooks an exuberance that we’ve not seen and heard for quite some time:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on October 27, 2022.)