A break in the rain!......

A rainbow in the sky!  A feeling of hope that the rains might be ending soon!  After days of nothing but rain, this rainbow was so encouraging to see!  It means that there was still rain....but also sunshine!  It was a gorgeous rainbow....very brightly colored on the one end, but hard to take a photo of and couldn't get the whole thing in.  It was double on the right end and then the second one ended in the cloud over the top.

Our local paper showed aerial photos of the flooding in our area today.  I had been wishing there was some way to take photos myself, but nothing that would do justice to the amount of rain that we have been dealing with.  All of the rivers....Ohio, Wabash, White and others are at flood stage or beyond and there is just mile after mile of water everywhere.  I will put a link HERE to the newspaper photos.

So this rainbow was very welcome to see!  We are not suppose to get any rain today, but there is another inch or more coming over the weekend.  People all over the city are busy sandbagging their properties, but there isn't a lot of hope for some of them.  This is the wettest spring I have seen in a long time.

We went by the wetlands (very appropriately named at the moment!) yesterday and I got in some walking.  I need to do more walking now that the rains are going away and build up strength in my new knee.  Of course the old one that isn't fixed yet, still hurts :-)  I always enjoy the turtles on the logs and yesterday, even though it was fairly late and cool, there were quite a few out on the logs.

I liked the reflections with this one.

Butt up in the air......is head down a more comfortable position??

I think these are a combination of Painted Turtles and Red Eared Sliders.  That is what we mostly see.

Some of their favorite logs are still under water, but they always find spots somewhere to soak up a bit of sunshine.

One of the bigger groups.....small by the usual standards for this area!

Mike spotted this cool Luna Moth at the base of a tree just off the boardwalk.  I've never seen one before!  I sent him with the camera to get some close-ups.  We wondered if it was newly out....it didn't seem to be doing anything.

This is one of the times I wish we had the newer camera for better close-ups!  My camera is being fixed and I hope to have it back soon.

One lone goose at the wetlands.  I wonder if it has a mate nearby on a nest.  I would guess that many nests have gone under water, if they were very close to any rivers, ponds, or lakes in the area.  I think that the pair we had nesting by our pond gave up.  After days and nights on end of nothing but rain, rain, and more rain, one day the one on the nest just got up and flew away with her mate.  Maybe all the dampness was just too much and the eggs wouldn't hatch.  I don't know.