Hope for the Streams

Sunset this evening was just before 5PM, but the sun slipped below the tree line just around 3:15. There is that small disadvantage in living between two mountains. As the snow melts, accelerated by a day of rain, and a day of temperatures in the high fifties, the river has risen to the point where it supplies steady white noise. The ground, however, remains blanketed in white, but the white will be gone soon enough. Will the wet winter continue? Will the snowfall be frequent enough to give the local; streams the replenishment that they have been lacking since 1997? We can only hope, but the weather gives us some reason to hope.